Idlib Health Receives a New Batch of Corona Vaccine as the “Delta” Mutant Spread Intensifies in the Region
The Health Directorate in Idlib Governorate, northwest of Syria, announced that it had received the largest batch of anti-Covid-19 vaccines, at a time when the “Delta” variant of the virus continues to spread in the region.
In an interview with Al-Araby Al-Jadeed, the media official in the Idlib Health Directorate, Abdul Razzaq Al-Khalil, said, “The batch of new vaccines received by the Directorate is the largest among the three batches it received, and it included 358,800 doses of the Chinese Sinovac vaccine.”
Al-Khalil added that these doses arrived through the global “Cofax” initiative, which is co-managed by the World Health Organization, and which provides anti-Covid-19 vaccines to countries that need them.
The doses will be distributed to areas in the countryside of Aleppo and Idlib that are not under the control of the Assad regime forces, and will be provided to those over 18 years of age.
Al-Khalil indicated that “the region is still affected by the rapid spread of the delta mutator”, which was first detected in India last April, adding that “the centers affiliated with the directorate record daily dozens of COVID-19 infections, noting that most of them are delta mutants.”
It is noteworthy that the Health Directorate had recorded 1,417 new infections in northern Syria, on Thursday, 1063 of them in Idlib Governorate, bringing the total number of infected to 41,866, of whom 25,036 people recovered, and 782 others died.
