By: Times News Service
Muscat: The Ministry of Health (MoH) has allowed companies operating in the private sector to reserve COVID-19 vaccines for their employees, according to an official from the Capital Market Authority (CMA).
Speaking exclusively to Times of Oman, an official from the CMA confirmed on April 5, 2021, that the Authority issued a circular addressed to the CEOs and Directors General of companies and insurance brokers stating, “An extension of the initiatives of companies operating in the insurance sector to enhance the societal efforts made to deal with coronavirus and the effects resulting from it, we would like to inform you that we have received a letter from the Ministry of Health to address the companies operating in the sector if they wish to reserve quantities of vaccine for their employees.”
Private companies can reserve vaccines for their employees: CMA
By: Times News Service
Muscat: The Ministry of Health (MoH) has allowed the companies operating in the private sector to reserve COVID-19 vaccines for their employees, according to an official from the Capital Market Authority (CMA).
Speaking exclusively to Times of Oman, an official from the CMA confirmed on April 5, 2021, that the Authority issued a circular addressed to the CEOs and Directors General of companies and insurance brokers stating, “An extension of the initiatives of companies operating in the insurance sector to enhance the societal efforts made to deal with coronavirus and the effects resulting from it, we would like to inform you that we have received a letter from the Ministry of Health to address the companies operating in the sector if they wish to reserve quantities of vaccine for their employees.”
Egypt received the first shipment of vaccines developed by Sinopharm last December.
Last week, the country’s minister of health said that Egypt would receive 40 million doses through the International Vaccine Alliance, a sufficient amount to vaccinate 20 million people, or 20 percent of Egypt’s population of 100 million.
The Ministry of Health and Population said that those who will receive the vaccine must be over the age of 18, and that pregnant women and children will not receive the jab.
The ministry also set the times and places for the first group of vaccine recipients.
Minister of Health Hala Zayed will hold a press conference at the Abu Khalifa Isolation Hospital in Ismailia Governorate to announce the vaccine distribution plan.
Bolivia supports UN strategy for vaccination against Covid-19
Bolivia supports UN strategy for vaccination against Covid-19
La Paz, Jan 8 (Prensa Latina) The Bolivian State on Friday supported the United Nations strategy for the vaccination against Covid-19, based on the principle of equitable distribution of the drug.
Bolivian Ambassador to the UN Diego Pary confirmed such information reiterating the need to strengthen cooperation as a requirement to defeat the Covid-19 disease. If the pandemic is not solved in all countries worldwide, the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus will continue because, in the end, our countries are dynamic, the population moves from one side to another, the diplomat said, quoted by local media.