President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih has announced that the state has successfully acquired enough doses of the Pfizer vaccine to immunize all children in the Maldives between the ages of 12 and 17 years.
He made this statement while speaking to members of the media during yesterday's press conference, held at the President's Office.
Speaking to the reporters present, President Solih revealed that vaccination for children above the age of 12 years would commence next week.
Underscoring the government's priority to fully inoculate the Maldives' population, President Solih went into detail about the efforts of the government to procure sufficient vaccines, leading to our nation successfully becoming one of the first in the world to initiate Covid-19 vaccination.
President Solih said that the Maldives has now successfully acquired enough doses of the vaccine to inoculate all residents.
The President's Office said that over 80 per cent of the eligible population in the Maldives had received the first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and 69 percent had completed both doses of the vaccine thus far.
It said that under the ongoing nationwide mass vaccination program, the government aims to fully inoculate 90 percent of the eligible population by the end of August 2021.
