UAE health ministry officials receive first dose of Covid-19 vaccine

▴ UAE health ministry officials receive first dose of Covid-19 vaccine

This follows Mohap's move to administer the vaccine to frontline health workers, who are at high risk of getting virus

Senior officials of the UAE's Ministry of Health and Prevention (Mohap) received a dose of the Covid-19 vaccine on Monday.

Among the latest batch of UAE health officials who took the jab were Dr. Youssif Al Serkal, assistant undersecretary for the hospital sector and director-general of the Emirates Health Services Corporation; Dr. Hussein Abdel Rahman Al Rand, undersecretary of the ministry's health assistant sector, health centers, and clinics; and Awad Saghir Al Ketbi, assistant undersecretary of the support services sector.

Not much information was provided further.

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