2021-02-24 14:35:23 GMT2021-02-24 22:35:23(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
NICOSIA, Feb. 24 (Xinhua) -- Cyprus' COVID-19 vaccination campaign is picking up speed as larger vaccine shipments were due to be delivered on Wednesday under the European Union's joint vaccine procurement scheme, a Health Ministry official said.
Elena Panayiotopoulou, a senior official of the ministry's Medical Services section, told CyBC state radio that close to 20,000 vaccination appointments have been made for the current week, equal to one third of the total number of vaccine doses administered since the program started at the beginning of February.
She said that more than 58,000 people aged over 70, or about seven percent of the country's population, have already been vaccinated, and almost 20,000 of them have received a second jab as well.