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Premier to Launch Coronavirus Vaccination Campaign Today First Shipment of COVID Vaccines Arrives • Priority for the Elderly, Frontliners JAMADA ALAWWAL 9, 1442 AH THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 2020 16 Pages Max 19º Min 12º 150 Fils Established 1961 ISSUE NO: 18317 The First Daily in the Arabian Gulf www.kuwaittimes.net Lives cut short: The American Thousands of trucks mass at Elephant Santas spread virus Messi passes Pele as top 5 children lost to stray bullets 8 Dover in cross-Channel chaos 13 awareness among Thai kids 16 scorer at a single club Premier to launch coronavirus vaccination campaign today First shipment of COVID vaccines arrives • Priority for the elderly, frontliners By B Izzak KUWAIT: HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- Khaled Al-Sabah will today launch Kuwait’s coron- avirus vaccination campaign at a special facility at the international fairgrounds in Mishref, Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Anas Al-Saleh said yester- day. Saleh said the vaccination will be given to all “citizens and expats”. Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah said yesterday the vaccination cam- paign will continue for one year until “the entire pop- ulation of Kuwait has been vaccinated”. The first shipment of the vaccines arrived early yes- terday and the health minister said they will continue to arrive every month for a year. The first vaccines will be given to people aged above 65, frontline health work- ers and people with special needs. A statement by the health ministry yesterday said it will take five to six minutes to vaccinate each person, with a maximum of 10,000 people to be vaccinated daily. During an inspection with Saleh of Hall 5 at the fairgrounds, Sheikh Basel thanked medical cadres, technicians and experts for their round-the-clock efforts in the previous months, saying it resulted in the logistical success of delivering the vaccine to Kuwait. He said Kuwait will now begin a new phase of vaccinations and hopefully beat the virus, adding that it is important to eradicate COVID-19 rather KUWAIT: Medical staff stand ready at the COVID-19 vaccination center at the international fairgrounds than focus on bringing the number of infections in Mishref yesterday. (Inset) Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah visits the vaccination center down. He affirmed herd immunity can only be yesterday. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat (See Page 2) achieved through the vaccination campaign. Continued on Page 2 with pictures of men and women Dubai rolls out receiving the jab. It added that the first phase of the rollout will target citizens and residents over the age of Masks block COVID jabs 60, adults with chronic diseases, peo- ple with special needs as well as 99.9% of large DUBAI: Dubai launched its COVID- frontline and other key workers. Along 19 vaccination program yesterday with with the elderly man and nurse, a COVID droplets a senior citizen and a nurse among the paramedic, a police officer and a driv- first to be inoculated using the Pfizer- er were among the first to receive the PARIS: Face masks reduce the risk of spreading BioNTech vaccine, the government jab in Dubai, which has said vaccina- large COVID-linked droplets when speaking or said. The UAE -which is made up of tion will be “free of charge” for all cit- coughing by up to 99.9 percent, according to a seven emirates including the capital izens and residents. lab experiment with mechanical mannequins and Abu Dhabi and Dubai - approved the The first batch arrived on an Emirates human subjects, researchers said yesterday. A emergency registration of the vaccine cargo flight from Brussels on Tuesday, woman standing two meters from a coughing on Tuesday, the same day the first WAM said. “It has been our honor to man without a mask will be exposed to 10,000 batch arrived from abroad, the official transport these vaccines free of charge times more such droplets than if he were wearing WAM news agency reported. on our flight,” the airline’s chairman and one, even if he is only 50 cm away, they reported Dubai “begins COVID-19 vaccina- chief executive, Sheikh Ahmed bin DUBAI: A health worker administers a dose of the coronavirus vac- in the journal Royal Society Open Science. tion ‘Pfizer-BioNTech’ campaign”, the Saeed Al-Maktoum, said in a statement. cine to a senior citizen at a medical center yesterday. — AFP “There is no more doubt whatsoever that Dubai Media Office tweeted, along Continued on Page 2 face masks can dramatically reduce the disper- sion of potentially virus-laden droplets,” senior author Ignazio Maria Viola, an expert in applied lost hope a long time ago,” said Fares Saadi, the Iraqi them to the hospital, took statements,” he said. fluid dynamics at the University of Edinburgh’s Iraqis angry but police officer who led the investigations into the shoot- Saadi was the lead Iraqi police investigator into Continued on Page 2 ings at Baghdad’s crowded Nisur Square. The the incident, coordinating with FBI teams sent to Blackwater team, contracted to provide security for US Baghdad and even providing witness testimony in unsurprised over diplomats in Iraq following the American-led invasion in US trials. Three of the guards - Paul Slough, Evan 2003, claimed they were responding to insurgent fire. Liberty and Dustin Heard - were initially convicted Trump pardons The bloody episode left at least 14 Iraqi civilians of manslaughter, attempted manslaughter and a dead and 17 wounded, many of whom Saadi remem- firearm offense, and sentenced to 30 years each. A Trump rejects BAGHDAD: Iraqis yesterday were outraged, heartbro- bered taking to the hospital himself. “Thirteen years, fourth, Nicholas Slatten, was determined to have ken but not surprised to hear US President Donald you said? My God. I remember it like it was yester- fired the first shots and was convicted of first-degree Trump had pardoned for four Blackwater contractors day,” he told AFP by telephone in Baghdad. “It was murder and sentenced to life in prison. COVID bill, calls convicted of killing Iraqi civilians in Baghdad in 2007. “I random fire, 360 degrees. I picked up people, drove Continued on Page 2 it ‘a disgrace’ WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump on US-Israeli delegation Tuesday rejected a massive COVID economic relief package passed by Congress, branding it signs deals in Morocco “a disgrace” in an act of political brinkmanship less than a month before he must leave office and RABAT: A US-Israeli delegation flight between Israel and Morocco. when millions of Americans are suffering fallout signed agreements with Morocco in Less than two weeks ago, Morocco from the pandemic. Trump dropped the bomb- Rabat Tuesday, cementing a became the third Arab state this year, shell via a pre-recorded statement made in the Washington-sponsored normalization after the United Arab Emirates and White House and sent out on Twitter. of relations between the Jewish state Bahrain, to normalize ties with Israel It came just a day after his Republicans and the and the North African country. The under US-brokered deals, while Democrats finally agreed overwhelmingly to a visiting delegation, led by Jared Sudan has pledged to follow suit. The $900 billion bill meant to throw a lifeline to busi- Kushner - son-in-law and advisor to US-Israeli delegation met King nesses and people struggling to keep heads above outgoing US President Donald Trump Mohammed VI at the royal palace, - and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin before the signing of a tripartite dec- water. In his address, Trump said he would refuse RABAT: King Mohammed VI, flanked by his son Crown Prince Moulay Netanyahu’s security advisor, Meir laration lauding Trump’s Dec 10 deci- to accept the bill as it is and demanded changes, Hassan, meets US Presidential Advisor Jared Kushner and Israeli Ben Shabbat, arrived in Rabat from sion to recognize Morocco’s Continued on Page 2 National Security Advisor Meir Ben Shabbat on Tuesday. — AFP Tel Aviv on the first direct commercial Continued on Page 2 2 Established 1961 Thursday, December 24, 2020 Local Health ministry ready to receive everyone for COVID-19 vaccines Kuwait’s COVID-19 cases jump by 266, deaths by one KUWAIT: Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah tours the Kuwait vaccination center for Health Minister Sheikh Dr Basel Al-Sabah tours the Kuwait vaccination center for COVID-19 at Kuwait International Fairground in Mishref yesterday. COVID-19. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat KUWAIT: The Ministry of Health is ready to requests on the ministry’s website to facilitate the in charge and prepared in the vaccination centers, hour span, increasing the total number of infections receive everyone to take novel coronavirus (COVID- process of their entrance to the centers, and to as they are capable to receive all registered people, to 148,773, while one fatality was recorded to a 19) vaccines, Director of Public Health Department approve their reservations, as the Ministry is ready calling on everyone to immediately register online. death toll of 924. Plus, active cases amounted to Dr Fahad Al-Qimlas announced yesterday, adding to receive thousands of people daily. The COVID-19 vaccines are stored according to 3,255 with 54 of them in intensive care units, MoH’s that the ministry has a well-placed plan to approve the instructions and regulations of the Ministry’s Spokesman Dr Abdullah Al-Sanad said. Earlier, the vaccination centers, namely halls number five and six Accurate information medical storage department, as the vaccine quanti- ministry confirmed 238 fresh recovery cases, added in Kuwait International Fairground (KIF), as well as Qimlas called on people questioning the credibil- ties are sufficient and cover the need of all demands, to a total of 144,594 cured people thus far.
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