The Ministry of Health will on Sunday launch a campaign targeting a new segment of society as part of its Covid-19 national immunization drive using Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine.

 The campaign targets people aged 65+ in all governorates of the Sultanate, irrespective of whether they are ‘healthy’ or not. The vaccine will be given at designated immunization centres.

The two-dose vaccine will be given in intervals of four weeks. 

 Last Saturday, the Sultanate received a total of 100,000 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from India where the medicine was produced at Serum Institute.

 People who already received the first dose of Pfizer-bioNTech will not be given the current vaccine. The Ministry of Health will announce the date of applying for the second dose of Pfizer-bioNTech later.