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More than 250,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Syria on Thursday from the UN-backed COVAX initiative, to inoculate the country’s frontline health workers.
The bulk of the AstraZeneca vaccines from the Serum Institute of India reached Damascus and more than 53,000 doses were delivered to the northwest, where conflict and displacement have continued.
“This is an important milestone in our collective fight against the pandemic” as it is bringing the nation closer to vaccine equity and giving hope to the people, “whose lives have been shattered by a decade of conflict”, said Akjemal Magtymova, the World Health Organization (WHO) Representative in Syria.