Yemen starts COVID-19 vaccination campaign
Reuters
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ADEN, April 20 (Reuters) - Yemen's COVID-19 vaccination campaign began in government-held areas on Tuesday three weeks after the first shipment from the global COVAX vaccine-sharing scheme arrived in the war-torn country.
Yemen on March 31 received 360,000 doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine, part of a consignment from COVAX expected to total 1.9 million doses this year.
The campaign kicked of in the southern port city of Aden, the government's interim capital in a six-year-old war.
The health minister and the Yemen representative for U.N. Children's Fund UNICEF, Philippe Duamelle, received shots in a show of confidence in the vaccine.