Dubai begins Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine rollout to 12-15-year-olds

  • Date: 01-Jun-2021
  • Source: Al Arabiya
  • Sector:Healthcare
  • Country:UAE
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Dubai begins Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine rollout to 12-15-year-olds

Dubai, the second-largest member of the United Arab Emirates federation, has started offering the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine to 12-15 year olds, the government media office said on Twitter on Tuesday.

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The Reuters COVID-19 tracker shows that the UAE has among the world's highest immunization rates, with about two thirds of its population having taken two doses of the Pfizer-BioNtTech, Sinopharm, AstraZeneca or Sputnik V vaccines.

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