Health Emergency Operations Center HEO says more than 200 people were vaccinated on the first day of the COVID vaccination program which was kicked-off yesterday.
HEOC said that 282 people were vaccinated with the first dose of the covidsheild vaccine yesterday in all the vaccinations centers in the Male' City and the two centers in the Atolls.
Officials have said that five hospitals in the capital Male' had began the inoculating against the COVID-19 including IGMH, Villimale Hospital, Hulhumale' Hospital, ADK Hospital, and Treetop Hospital.
Addu Equatorial Hospital and Kulhudhufushi regional hospital also began the vaccination program yesterday.
Yesterday, President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih had said that the government aims to inoculate the whole population against the COVID-19 pandemic within the next six months.
This comes after a dramatic rise in COVID cases across the Maldives at the start of this year with 215 new cases reported yesterday in the country.
Health Protection Agency HPA had said that a total of 16056 COVID-19 cases have now been reported in the Maldives and that the number of active cases in the country has now moved up to 1807.
HPA also that 184 COVID-19 patients are currently hospitalized for further treatment and have previously warned that the current continuous trend of increased infections, would overwhelm the medical facilities in the country.
It also reminded this may result in negatively affecting both COVID-19 & non-COVID-19 healthcare.
