510,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses given so far: MoPH

MoPH

The Ministry of Public Health (MOPH) has announced that 510,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses have been administered since the start of the Covid-19 National Vaccination Program. The Ministry stated that the recent availability of greater quantities of both the Moderna and Pfizer and BioNTech vaccines has helped increase the pace of the vaccination program, with over 100,000 doses being administered each week, meaning that every day around 14,000 of our most vulnerable members of society and essential workers are getting vaccinated and becoming protected against Covid-19. The Ministry said that as it continues to highlight the importance of vaccination for the elderly, the number of older people receiving the vaccine is constantly rising. It is very reassuring to know that more than six out of every ten people aged 60 and above have now received at least their first dose of the vaccine, with 67 percent of people over 70 years of age, and 63 percent of people over 60 years of age having received the vaccine. Since the beginning of February, the number of doses administered each week has increased by 270 percent and more than one in seven adults, 15 percent of Qatar's adult population, have now received at least one vaccine dose.