Health Protection Agency HPA has said that more than 145,000 people have been given the COVID-19 vaccine since authorities kick-off the mass inoculation program last month.
HPA said that on Saturday 6941 people were vaccinated across the Maldives. It said that 2,154 people were vaccinated in the Greater Male' Area where vaccination did not take place on Friday.
As for the Atolls, HPA confirmed 4,787 people were vaccinated against the pandemic today.
HPA said that this takes the total number of people vaccinated to a promising 145,768. This includes 87,045 in the Greater Male' Area and 58,723 in the Atolls.
HPA had set up 8 vaccination centers in the Greater Male' Area while two mobile units are also active in the Area. Authorities have established 169 vaccination centers in the Atolls.
Maldives has received the COVID-19 vaccine from both India and China along with another generous donor.
India had first donated 100,000 doses of its own covisheild vaccine back in January and pledged a further 100,000 last month. Both the batches have arrived in the Maldives.
China had also initially pledged 100,000 doses of COVID vaccine and had last week announced the donation of another 100,000 doses of the vaccine.
The Government of the Maldives aims to immunize the country's whole population against the devastating pandemic within three months.
