AMMAN
— Jordan has administered the first dose of the vaccine to 273,921 people as of
March 25th, according to Sakher Dodin, a government spokesperson.
اضافة اعلان
A
total of 777,825 citizens and residents or around 6.8 percent of Jordan’s
population, have registered for the COVID-19 vaccine via the online platform,
vaccine.jo.
This
number “is not enough and is far from our expectations after all this time
(since the start of the pandemic). The government must act to increase this
number and Jordanians must register for the vaccine,” Ahmad Sarahneh, head of
the Lower House’s Health Committee, told Jordan
News.
In
February, then minister of health Nathir Obeidat stated that around three
million people need to be vaccinated for Jordan to achieve herd immunity.
Jordan began its vaccination campaign on January 13th after receiving shipments of
the Sinopharm and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines. Two months later, only 75,921
people — less than a percentage of Jordan’s population — had received both
shots of the vaccine.
The
government has also taken steps to expand the vaccination campaign outside of
the online platform. On March 23, Jordan launched its campaign to inoculate
medical personnel; in a single day, 8,332 doctors, nurses, and other medical
staff in the public and private sectors received their first dose of the
COVID-19 vaccine, according to the Jordan News Agency, Petra.
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