MOH sets the date for the release of more than half a million vaccine doses

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12-03-2021, 18:27

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Baghdad - INA

The Ministry of Health and Environment set today, Friday, the date for the launch of more than half a million doses of the Corona vaccine.
The Director General of Public Health, Riyad Abdul Amir, said in a statement to the Iraqi News Agency (INA): "The next dose of vaccines, according to the agreement with Kovacs company, will be in the middle of this month," noting that "the ministry will release up to 568 thousand doses, which are expected to arrive soon." .
He added that "the ministry has expanded its diagnostic and therapeutic capabilities from a thousand beds to 12 thousand beds for cases, and now has 60 diagnostic laboratories, while the respiratory devices have become 10 thousand devices after they did not exceed the 500 devices."