Saudi Arabia may register another COVID-19 vaccine before year-end: official

19/12/2020 Argaam

Saudi Arabia is studying other COVID-19 vaccines and might register another one before the end of 2020, Alarabiya TV reported, citing Abdullah Al-Asiri, assistant deputy minister for preventive health at the Ministry of Health.

 

"If the social immunity reaches 80%, we can say that the Kingdom overcame the epidemic," Al-Asiri said.

 

He added that the vaccination for the first high-risk group may take one to two months, and then the other groups will be vaccinated.

 

According to data compiled by Argaam, Saudi Arabia started, on Dec. 17, the vaccination campaign with the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine.Saudi Arabi

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