82 percent of UAE population has received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine: MoH – Roya News English

  • Date: 13-Aug-2021
  • Source: Roya News
  • Sector:Healthcare
  • Country:UAE
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82 percent of UAE population has received at least one dose of a coronavirus vaccine: MoH – Roya News English

Friday, the UAE Ministry of Health announced that 81.84 percent of the total population of the Emirates received a first dose, and 72.76 percent received two doses of approved emergency vaccines against coronavirus

The UAE health distributed 248,000 doses of vaccines during the past 24 hours, bringing the total distributed doses to 17.31 million doses.

The UAE has approved four emergency vaccines for adults: Pfizer, Sinopharm, AstraZeneca, and Sputnik. Sinopharm is also approved for children from 3 to 17 years old.