The Syrian government has registered over 21,500 cases - including 1,483 deaths - in areas under its control since the first case was reported in March 2020. “The immunization will begin today but we need to stress that the numbers of vaccines that have gone into the country are limited,” Chaiban said adding that in addition to medical centers, hundreds of mobile teams will go to vaccinate people in different and remote locations. UNICEF is seeking an additional $12 million for the plan. Speaking with The Associated Press from neighboring Jordan, Chaiban added that after health workers, older people will be vaccinated.Ĭhaiban added that the total cost of the shots from WHO and UNICEF is $38 million to complement what is provided by U.N.-led COVAX program for the world’s poorest nations and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance. “The priority for immunization will be frontline health workers who are the first line of defense against COVID,” said Ted Chaiban, regional director for the Middle East and north Africa at UNICEF. Hundreds of thousands more are scheduled to arrive in the coming months.
The 203,000 jabs that arrived in Damascus Thursday will cover government-held areas and those under the control of Kurdish fighters in the northeast. Thursday’s announcement came a day after Syria’s last rebel-held enclave received its first batch of 53,800 COVID-19 vaccines from neighboring Turkey. children’s agency UNICEF to distribute the vaccine equally across the country. Akjemal Magtymova, the representative of the World Health Organization in Syria, said that the government drafted a plan with the World Health Organization and U.N.
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