Mass at the weekend.
About 7,000 people received the Sinopharm vaccine over two days at St Joseph’s Church as part of a major drive to inoculate residents.
The initial plan was to only vaccinate people who frequent the church but, once word got out about the initiative, the drive was extended to everyone.
Queues stretched outside the church gates, with officials saying most of those eventually vaccinated were non-churchgoers.
John E John, Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia
St Paul’s Church in Mussaffah is the next and health workers are preparing to vaccinate people this weekend.
“It started up as a drive for members of our church community as we had been talking to Seha about having a drive for the faithful and staff, John E John, director of communication at the Apostolic Vicariate of Southern Arabia, told