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Cases at Mubarak Hospital on rise
KUWAIT CITY, March 2: The Ministry of Health (MoH) has reiterated that no unexpected side effects or any death related to Covid-19 vaccinations have either been recorded or monitored among all people who have received the Covid-19 vaccination by registering on the ministry’s platforms. A member of the Supreme Committee for Vaccines in the Ministry of Health, Dr. Khaled Al- Saeed, in a statement said Covid-19 vaccinations currently available in the country have not shown any side effects irrespective whether the recipient was earlier infected with the virus or not and had not shown any symptoms at that time.
Kuwait receives 200,000 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine
KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Ministry of Health (MoH) announced that 200,000 doses of the UK-based AstraZeneca with the University of Oxford vaccine against COVID-19 arrived in the country at dawn yesterday. In a press statement, Assistant Undersecretary for Drug and Food Control Affairs Dr Abdullah Al-Bader has said that the ministry is closely monitoring international developments concerning the vaccines, adding that the department would cooperate with various producing companies to get the jabs after ensuring their safety and efficacy.
Meanwhile, Khaled Al-Saeed, member of the vaccine technical committee at the MoH, said the Oxford vaccine is safe for the age categories between 18 and 65. The ministry will begin, as of this week, giving dates to get the jab for a large number of nationals and residents at the Kuwait Vaccination Center in Kuwait International Fairground, halls 5 and 6. The vaccine is effective against medium and s
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‘Students abroad can register on MoH site’
KUWAIT CITY, Jan 9: A member of the technical committee for the ‘Corona’ vaccine, Professor Khaled Al-Saeed said he expected the number of people registering on the electronic link to receive the (Covid- 19) vaccine will reach about 250,000 during the next ‘few hours’.
In a press statement, Al-Saeed explained the fear for vaccination is normal at first, because “we always fear everything new, but this fear quickly dissipated after the initiative of His Highness the Prime Minister, the Minister of Health, members of the legislative and executive authorities, members of the technical committee and medical personnel to receive the vaccine.” Al-Saeed praised the global efforts to find the vaccine in what he called a short period of time, and pointed out decoding the genetic code of viruses usually takes years, but that it took only about 40 days to decode ‘Corona’ using modern scientific means and the discovery of contempo