‘21,000 shots every day’

KUWAIT CITY, April 6: The government’s target is to increase registration for Covid-19 vaccine and give the vaccine to 1.5 million citizens and residents out of 2.5 million people targeted before the last ten days of Ramadan, given the fact the vaccination is the only way to reduce infections with the coronavirus, reports Al-Anba daily.

The health sources said the reports are encouraging and that the 650,000 people from now until April 22, when the implementation of partial curfew will be looked into corresponding to the 10th of Ramadan, the Ministry of Health will have completed vaccinating one million people at the rate of vaccinating 21,000 people every day.

The sources went on to say during the next ten days, you will have reached the vaccination of one and a half million out of the total number of targeted people, which is 2.5 million, and a higher number may have been achieved under the plan to administer the vaccine in clinics.

The sources added that, in normal circumstances, the vaccination rate of 60% of the population will have been achieved, which is the initial percentage required to achieve community immunity and return to normal life, which will entail the abolition of the ban.

The Director of Graduate Affairs Department at the Deanship of Admission and Registration at Kuwait University Fatima Al-Amiri announced 2,053 students have graduated during the first semester of 2020/2021/2020, reports Al-Seyassah daily.

She said the distribution of graduation certificates will continue until next week. Al-Amiri explained in a press note, the lists of graduates have been sent to the Civil Service Commission, and that coordination has been established to extend the registration period at the CSC.