Dr. Wahid Majroh, acting health minister, at the opening ceremony of COVID-19 vaccination campaign extended his gratitude for India that provided Afghanistan with 500,000 doses of the anti-disease vaccine.
The biggest responsibility of Afghan health ministry is to fairly administer vaccines, he said, calling for monitoring of the process.
Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani, meanwhile, said with reference to new variants of the novel coronavirus that the risk still remains.
President Ghani said at the ceremony that he had ordered a minaret to be built and names of healthcare workers who lost their lives to the pandemic will be inserted into its wall.
Earlier on February 7, the south Asian country torn by decades-long war and violence which have devastated its healthcare infrastructure received 500,000 doses of AstraZeneca/Oxford University vaccine developed by Serum Institute of India for poor countries.
The vaccine shots were first in the country which will immunize 250,000 people.
As per the health ministry’s data, Afghanistan has so far recorded more than 55,600 infection cases since the outbreak first entered the country.
However, a total of 2,435 patients having been contracted with the disease have died and a total of 48,895 have recovered from the pandemic during the same period.
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