Published: 18 February 2021
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Gaza gets its first Covid-19 vaccine shipment, officials say (Reuters)
Gaza received its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday after Israel approved the transfer through its border with the Hamas Islamist-run territory, Israeli and Palestinian officials said
The shipment, sent by the Palestinian Authority from the occupied West Bank, included 2,000 doses of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine, enough to inoculate 1,000 people in a two-shot regimen.
“We will use the doses to vaccinate patients who had organ transplants and those who suffer kidney failure,” Majdi Dhair, a Gaza health ministry official, told Reuters.
An American family stuck in Gaza for months due to Covid restrictions finally leaves: 'It was hell' (CNN)
First batch of Covid vaccines arrives in Gaza after Israel approves transfer (Haaretz)
Shipment from West Bank includes some 1,000 Sputnik V vaccines donated by Russia to the Palestinian Authority
Coronavirus in Israel: Malls, tourism, cultural venues to reopen Sunday (Jerusalem Post)
Grades 5-6 and 11-12 in green, yellow and light orange cities will be able to resume in person starting on Sunday. *Next phase of lifting restrictions will begin on March 7, include restaurants.
Photo: Palestinian workers unload the first shipment of vaccines in the southern Gaza Strip, February 17 (Reuters/Ibraheem Abu Mustafa)
