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UAE Covid vaccine: Over 1 million doses administered

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Dubai - The health authorities in the country aim to vaccinate over 50 per cent of its residents in the first quarter of this year

Published: Sun 10 Jan 2021, 12:35 AM

Updated: Sun 10 Jan 2021, 9:35 PM

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Health authorities in the UAE have administered over a million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine.

The National Emergency Crisis and Disaster Management Authority (NCEMA) tweeted that 78,793 doses of the vaccine were administered in the last 24 hours (12.20am, January 10).

This takes the total number of vaccine doses to 1.02 million, with a distribution rate of 10.32 doses per 100 people.

Also read: Covid-19 vaccine: UAE, Israel top 2 countries in giving coronavirus jabs

The health authorities in the country aim to vaccinate over 50 per cent of its residents in the first quarter of this year.

Two types of vaccines are administered in the UAE - Chinese Sinopharm and Pfizer-BioNTech.



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