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We will never leave anybody behind : Oman’s Minister of Health
By: Gautam Viswanathan We will never leave anybody behind. These were the words spoken by Oman’s Minister of Health, Dr Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Saidi, just minutes after he became the first person in the country to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
Oman began its National Immunisation Campaign against the coronavirus this week, with vaccines already being distributed across all of the governorates across the country, with more doses expected soon.
“I want to assure everybody that making these vaccines in a short period of time has never compromised their safety or their efficacy,” said the Minister of Health. “They went through exactly the same steps – the three clinical trials were conducted the same way, the number of participants in these trials was also high enough to reach the statistical efficacy that we are looking for.