MoH quashes rumors new Astra vaccine batch unsafe – ARAB TIMES – KUWAIT NEWS – Arab Times Kuwait English Daily

MoH quashes rumors new Astra vaccine batch unsafe – ARAB TIMES – KUWAIT NEWS – Arab Times Kuwait English Daily

Around 30,000 get 2nd dose

KUWAIT CITY, June 12: About 30,000 persons have received their second dose of the ‘Oxford' in its first round, bringing the total vaccinations given by Kuwait to citizens and residents since the start of the national campaign for vaccination against ‘Covid 19' since the end of last December until now to about 2.75 million people, or 64.37 percent of the entire population eligible for vaccination. While the Ministry of Health harnessed all its soldiers and efforts to complete the immunization of those eligible for the second dose of the “Oxford” vaccine in record time which did not exceed a week, a number of those eligible for the vaccine are stuck with the doubt in their mind about the safety of the vaccine and refused to receive the second dose in exchange for receiving two additional doses of the Pfizer vaccine. Doubting the validity of the third shipment of the Oxford vaccine extended to spreading rumors about its invalidity and called for a boycott of the vaccine on various social media sites, rumors that the Ministry of Health confronted and denied in detail.