Bahrain announced Friday, December 4, the emergency approval of Pfizer-BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine, becoming the second country to give the green light a few days after the United Kingdom.
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The approval of the Pfizer / BioNTech vaccine will provide an important additional element to the kingdom's national action in the face of Covid-19, which has firmly focused on protecting the health of citizens and residents during the pandemic
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She did not specify the planned vaccination schedule.
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This clearance is the goal we worked towards when we first declared that science would
win,” said Lindsey Dietschi, Pfizer's Gulf manager, according to BNA.
The kingdom, which has recorded more than 87,000 cases of contamination including 341 deaths, approved in November the vaccine of the Chinese company Sinopharm for its health staff.
The United Kingdom is the first country in the world to have authorized the vaccine against the Covid-19 of the German BioNTech and the American giant Pfizer, which is to be available in the country from "
next week
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