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Saudi Arabia starts COVID-19 vaccination
Updated On: 17 December, 2020 05:15 PM IST | Mumbai | IANS
More than 150,000 individuals registered to receive the free-of-charge vaccine
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A nurse checks computers while another browses a phone as they wait to administer the first doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine (Tozinameran) at a vaccination centre in the capital Riyadh. Pic/AFP
Saudi Arabia on Thursday started a vaccination programme for the novel coronavirus, the Health Ministry announced.
In a tweet, Health Minister Tawfiq al-Rabiah, who received the vaccine, said: "In the last nine months, I was observing with concern the number of cases, today I will happily observe the number of people who will get the vaccine."
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