UNHCR commends Jordan s vaccination of refugees, urges other countries to follow suit
Jordan first country in world to vaccinate refugees
By Raed Omari - Mar 01,2021 - Last updated at Mar 01,2021
Dominik Bartsch
AMMAN Jordan has again demonstrated an inspiring role model in including refugees in its vaccination drive with no single moment of hesitation and no distinction whatsoever , UNHCR Representative to Jordan Dominik Bartsch has recently said. It is very important to acknowledge the very unique setting we have here in Jordan. From the first moment His Majesty King Abdullah has confirmed that refugees are included in the coronavirus response, every step in the way you have seen that in practice, Bartsch said in a recent interview with The Jordan Times.
ZAATARI REFUGEE CAMP, Jordan: For Um Ali, a 73-year-old Syrian woman living in a refugee camp in Jordan, being vaccinated against COVID-19 was a moment of overwhelming emotion.
“I really feel more secure now from the corona that has added a lot to our burdens,” the mother-of-five said, her eyes filling with tears. “For an old woman of my age, receiving the vaccine was such a great blessing. Thank you Jordan.”
Um Ali was vaccinated against the disease on Monday at the sprawling Zaatari refugee camp, which is on Jordan’s border with Syria. Her jab was part of an inoculation drive that got underway this week at the camp, which is home to 80,000 displaced Syrians.
InfoMigrants By Benjamin Bathke Published on : 2021/02/16
The UN refugee agency UNHCR says Jordan has opened a coronavirus vaccination center in the Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees. The facility is supposedly the first of its kind. It s the first vaccination center in the world to open in a refugee camp, Mohammed Hawari, spokesperson for the UN refugee agency UNHCR, told news agency
AFP on Monday (February 15).
According to
AFP, some 2,000 of the 80,000 inhabitants of the Zaatari camp on the border with Syria had signed up to receive the vaccination.
UNHCR spokesperson Hawari said that 1,200 refugees met the necessary criteria to be vaccinated preferentially. In Jordan, people older than 65, those with pre-existing conditions as well as health workers are vaccinated first.
Jordan launched a Covid-19 vaccination drive Monday in its huge Zaatari camp for Syrian refugees, in a world first, a UN spokesman said. "It's the first vaccination centre in the world to open in a refugee camp," Mohammad Hawari, spokesman in Jordan of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told AFP. He said that around 2,000 of the 80,000 residents of Zaatari camp on northern Jordan's border with Syria had signed up with the.
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