200,000 doses of Covishield vaccine made in India to arrive

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KUWAIT CITY, Jan 31: Kuwait Health Ministry on Sunday listed 635 new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases but no deaths during past 24 hours, raising the caseload of contaminations with the virus to 165,257 while fatalities’ overall count steadied at 959.

The ministry spokesperson Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad said in a statement to KUNA that number of people who are receiving treatement at intensive care units has amounted to 58, thus the whole count of the confirmed infection cases and remained under medical care has stood at 6,367.He pointed out that 8,994 swab tests were conducted in the past 24 hours bringing the total of such examinations to 1.529,581.

Kuwait’s Ministry of Health (MoH) announced Sunday that 200,000 doses of the UK-based AstraZeneca with the University of Oxford vaccine against COVID-19, will arrive at dawn tomorrow, Monday – which is manufactured at the Serum Institute of India (SII).

In a press statement, Assistant Undersecretary for Drug and Food Control Affairs Dr Abdullah Al-Bader said that the ministry authorized the vaccine for emergency use based on the decision of the joint technical committee between the Pharmaceutical and Herbal Medicines Registration and Control Department, also the Public Health Department for the evaluation and registration of vaccines

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