Nod to Moderna likely; societal immunity close
New cases at 1,017
KUWAIT CITY, May 23, (Agencies): The Ministry of Health is not keen about vaccines whose effectiveness and safety have not been proven through the scientific studies published about them, reports Al-Qabas daily quoting official sources from the Ministry of Health.
Regarding the possibility of approving and supplying vaccines other than Pfizer and Oxford, the sources indicated that the Moderna vaccine is likely to be approved soon.
They highlighted the situation in some countries that resorted to administering the third dose of some COVID-19 vaccines, which are not approved in Kuwait, about six months after administering the second dose.
Meanwhile, the sources explained that Kuwait is just a few steps away from achieving the milestone of two million COVID-19 doses administered to the people of Kuwait.
They affirmed that the ministry is intensifying its efforts to vaccinate about 70 percent of the country’s population in order to achieve community immunity within the shortest period of time. This is aimed to contain the pandemic and stop its spread among the various segments of the society.
The sources said the total number of COVID-19 doses administered so far in the country exceeded 192,000 as of Wednesday last week, adding that the pace of vaccinations accelerated in the recent period with the arrival of Pfizer vaccine shipments almost weekly.
They stressed that the vaccination campaigns have started to bear fruit through the improvement of the epidemiological situation of the country, and the positive indicators that now reveal decrease in the number of deaths and infections, as well as a remarkable decrease in the number of intensive care patients suffering from COVID-19.
Kuwait, meanwhile, has jumped to the 28th position in the world in terms of societal immunity against the ‘Corona’ virus out of 208 countries around the world, by immunizing about 47.5 percent of the population, which predicts to acquire total community immunity in Kuwait early next September, according to the CovidFax website.
Informed health sources said Kuwait has made great strides in community immunization since the start of the national vaccination campaign which kicked off at the end of last December and continues to date.