Vaccine roll-out begins in northern Syria
Published: 11:43 PM, May 01, 2021
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IDLIB: Residents of rebel-held parts of northern Syria began receiving coronavirus vaccinations on Saturday, a reporter said, with medics among the first to be inoculated. Authorities in Idlib and northern Aleppo provinces received an initial batch of 53,800 AstraZeneca Covid-19 jabs on April 21, under the Covax programme for poorer nations.
In Idlib city, the first to receive the jab was a doctor at the Ibn Sina children’s hospital, one of the city’s biggest medical facilities.
Yasser Najib, the head of a committee running the vaccine drive, said the first doses would go to medical staff at Ibn Sina and the national hospital in Azaz, in northern Aleppo.