November 23, 2020 is pictured a bottle reading “Vaccine Covid-19”
next to US pharmaceutical company Pfizer and German biotechnology
company BioNTech logos on November 23, 2020.JOEL SAGET /
AFP
Jordan announced late Monday that it had approved
emergency use of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine, as the
United States kicked off a mass vaccination drive.
The Jordanian Food and Drug Administration (JFDA) did not
specify when it would begin the rollout of the vaccine by US
pharmaceutical giant Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech.
Health Minister Nazir Obeidat said last month that the
vaccine would be distributed free of charge to foreign residents as
well as Jordanians.
JFDA director-general Nizar Mheidat told the official Petra news
agency it had “concluded all stages of granting the licence, in
order to approve and distribute the vaccine”.
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He added that a study was also underway to allow the use of two
other vaccines.
Jordan has previously said it was in talks on the use of two
other Covid vaccines being developed by British pharmaceuticals
group AstraZeneca and US group Johnson & Johnson.
Jordan’s green light for the Pfizer vaccine follows those of
Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and came six days after Britain launched
the world’s first mass innoculation campaign using the vaccine.
The kingdom has recorded 262,477 Covid-19 cases in its
population of just over 10 million, 3,407 of them fatal.
Last week, Jordan opened the first of three military field
hospitals for Covid-19 patients, intended to prevent a sharp rise
in cases from overwhelming existing healthcare facilities.
-AFP
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