The Covid-19 vaccine is expected to arrive in Qatar within a few weeks, a senior health official has said.
Dr Soha al-Bayat, head of the Vaccination Unit, Health Protection and Communicable Disease Control Department at the Ministry of Public Health (MoPH), told local Arabic daily Arrayah that Qatar is just weeks away from receiving the vaccine - which would arrive this month or at the beginning of 2021.
As reported earlier, Qatar has signed agreements with with Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna to procure Covid-19 vaccine.
She said the vaccine Qatar will get has shown promising results with an efficacy level of over 90%, according to preliminary outcomes.