The second shipment of the AstraZeneca – Oxford vaccine against Covid 19 will arrive in Kuwait tomorrow, while a third batch will arrive next week, Al Jarida reported quoting health sources.
It is estimated that 250,000 doses of vaccine will reach Kuwait in the second and third shipment each.
Sources told the daily that the Ministry of Health will reopen health centers for vaccination in health areas and hospitals after the arrival of new batches of the AstraZeneca – Oxford vaccine against Covid 19. The vaccine will be received in health areas and hospitals with ease because it is stored at a normal refrigerator temperature of 2 to 8 degrees Celsius.
The shipments will be supplied and transported directly to the medical warehouses and then distributed to all centers, whether in the Kuwait Vaccination Center in the exhibition grounds in the Mishrif area or hospitals and vaccination centers in the dispensaries. The Ministry has identified 15 health centers, with 3 vaccination centers in each health area.
The sources announced that the coming period will witness a doubling of the number of vaccination centers to reach 30 health centers in all health districts, with the arrival of new batches of the AstraZeneca – Oxford British vaccine.