which will last for 12 days, she said.
Dr Buhaibeh, Dr Al Wali and UN representative Philippe Dualleme were all vaccinated to show confidence in the shot’s safety, she said.
The vaccination campaign got under way amid a sharp rise in new infections in the country
.
Health workers in Yemen are being hit hard by the pandemic. People gather at a health centre to get vaccinated against Covid-19. The government plans to innoculate more than 300,000 people. EPA
Twenty-four health workers have
died in government-held areas, Dr Al Subaie said, “among them top surgeons”.
Yemen’s Emergency Committee for Covid-19 registered 60 new cases and six deaths from the virus on Tuesday.