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Happy National/Liberation Days to All There Will Be No Friday-Saturday Issue of the Arab Times basketball Pages 15 & 16 markets THE FIRST ENGLISH LANGUAGE DAILY IN FREE KUWAIT Page 10 Established in 1977 / www.arabtimesonline.com THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 2021 / RAJAB 14, 1442 AH emergency number 112 NO. 17623 16 PAGES 150 FILS Happy National/Liberation days to all There will be no Friday-Saturday issue of the Arab Times. We will appear again on Sunday morning. — See you then KUNA photo Sheikh Abdullah Al Salem Cultural Center One-dose J&J works Kuwait celebrates 60 WASHINGTON, Feb 24, (AP): Johnson & Johnson’s single-dose vaccine offers strong protec- Amir receives congratulations Other Voices tion against severe COVID-19, Hospitals ... clinics according to an analysis by US regulators Wednesday that sets KUWAIT CITY, Feb the stage for a final decision on ‘Health’ to license 24, (KUNA): Kuwait is Kuwaiti banks successfully a new and easier-to-use shot to set to celebrate its 60th help tame the pandemic. Thanks for taking The Food and Drug Adminis- private dose buys National Day on Thurs- pass stress tests: CBK report tration’s scientists confirmed that day, marking the ef- overall the vaccine is about 66% KUWAIT CITY, Feb 24, (KUNA): Ministry forts of its leadership to — Details Page 9 — us to the last place effective at preventing moderate of Health on Wednesday allowed hospitals, develop all sectors and to severe COVID-19, and about health centers and private health clinics to By Ali Ahmed Al-Baghli 85% effective against the most purchase COVID-19 vaccines from the local preserve the country’s Former Minister of Oil serious illness. The agency also agent or companies producing them after be- peace and stability. said J&J’s shot – one that could ing licensed and approved by the ministry to This year’s celebrations Newswatch help speed vaccinations by re- provide vaccination service. THE one who took us to the last place with an envi- quiring just one dose instead of will be the first under the In a statement, the ministry said that the leadership of His Highness able merit is His Excellency our Minister of Health, two – is safe to use. permission was stated in the circular No. the young Sheikh, with the blessing of his colleagues That’s just one step in the the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al- KUWAIT CITY: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh 5/2021 issued on wednesday through the Sabah Khaled Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, on Wednesday held in the wise government and most of the MPs of the FDA’s evaluation of a third vac- Health Licenses Department, as they should Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah cine option for the US. On Fri- and His Highness the Crown an online meeting regarding the (right to access informa- December 5, 2020 elections who remained silent even complete the electronic connection with the tion) law and its implementation rules, with the presence day, the agency’s independent electronic platform of the ministry before Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ah- though they had deafened our ears with endless sug- advisers will debate if the evi- of ministers and leaders from 75 government agencies. gestions and statements that we have been plagued by starting to provide the vaccination service. mad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. During the meeting, His Highness the Prime Minister dence is strong enough to recom- The Ministry stressed the need for the data During the celebrations, Ku- some of them until now. mend the long-anticipated shot. congratulated His Highness the Amir Sheikh Nawaf Al- to match all the requirements of the automat- wait is also remembering the great Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, His Highness the Crown The Parliament did not hold a single proper session, Armed with that advice, FDA is ed COVID-19 vaccination at the Ministry of efforts of the late Amir His High- Prince Sheikh Mishal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, including the opening session, the elections of the Na- expected to make a final decision Health to issue vaccination certificates, indicat- ness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad the Kuwaiti people on the advent of Kuwait’s 60th Na- tional Assembly Speaker and his within days. Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, who passed tional Day and 30th Anniversary of Liberation. The vaccination drive has been ing the need for hospitals, health centers and deputy, and the mess and battles clinics to be located in a self-contained build- away on 29 September, after long His Highness affi rmed that the meeting aimed at dis- slower than hoped, hampered by years of national and international cussing the mechanisms and tools for implementing the that accompanied them, and the ef- logistical issues and weather de- ing and not shared with other treatment insti- fects of which we are still suffering tutions and to have vaccination permits from achievements at every level. law on the right to access information despite the govern- lays even as the country mourns ment’s resignation due to its importance. (KUNA) from until now. the Health Licensing Department and the com- Although this year’s celebra- more than 500,000 virus-related tions come in time of the corona- ❑ ❑ ❑ Let’s go back to the last position deaths. So far, about 44.5 mil- mitment to apply the precautionary measures recommended by the Ministry of Health. virus virus crisis, as today marks that the wise government brought lion Americans have received at KUWAIT CITY: The Kuwaiti Ministry of Health (MoH) The ministry also stressed the need to stick one year since discovering the declared on Wednesday that 960 patients of the novel us to. The local newspapers (for least one dose of vaccine made first coronavirus case in Kuwait, by Pfizer or Moderna, and nearly to the standards, specifications and guidelines coronavirus (COVID-19) have been cured of the germ- example, Al-Seyassah daily on 20 million of them have received related to transporting, storing and giving the this crisis showed Kuwaiti peo- triggered ailment over past 24 hours. February 16) had published that the second dose required for full vaccines to the domestic medical sector is- ple’s strength and unity in facing Speaking in his daily briefi ng, the MoH offi cial spokes- Kuwait is at the bottom when protection. sued by the producer and from the drug and the pandemic. person Dr. Abdullah Al-Sanad said tally of the patients food control sector. Even though public celebrations who have been cured of the virus has hit 175,048. compared to the GCC countries in Al-Baghli J&J tested its single-dose op- tion in 44,000 adults in the US, The Ministry affirmed that the service pro- are banned by the government due Proportion of the cured of the total casualties was esti- terms of COVID-19 vaccinations. to the ongoing crisis, Kuwaiti fam- mated at 93.6 percent. To be precise, it ranked sixth among the six mem- Latin America and South Africa. vider bears full responsibility for the accuracy Different mutated versions of the of the data, ensuring its privacy, and following ilies will continue celebrating the Up to 1,001 persons contracted the virus over the past ber states of the Gulf Cooperation Council, and 66th up on the vaccination dates for recipients with event in their homes. 24 hours, putting the caseload of the contaminations with virus are circulating in different the pathogen at 187,005, in addition to fi ve new deaths among 87 countries of the world that have begun vac- countries, and the FDA analysis the responsibility to inform them via sms mes- Meanwhile, all segments of cinations against COVID-19. sages of their scheduled dates for taking doses. society are cooperating to deal with the death toll hitting 1,062 since local eruption of the cautioned that it’s not clear how pandemic months ago, Dr. Al-Sanad added. Even though Kuwait was among the fi rst countries to well the vaccine works against with the impact of the corona- Travel measures virus, including the great efforts Number of sick persons receiving treatment at intensive launch vaccination campaigns against the COVID-19 each variant. But J&J previously care units amounted to 147, thus putting the whole count pandemic, the severe slow pace of the vaccination pro- announced the vaccine worked Precautionary travel measures are still of the healthcare workers and implemented on all people, including those people who volunteered in dif- of the confi rmed infection cases that remained under treat- cess led the country to occupy this disappointing place better in the US – 72% effective ment at 10,895. He added that swab tests conducted over against moderate to severe CO- who have received coronavirus vaccine, for ferent areas. regionally and globally. the protection of all categories in the society, Kuwait had celebrated the first the past 24 hours reached 8,724 raising the whole count of We must pause here to talk about our brothers in VID-19, compared with 66% in such examinations to 1,755,500. (KUNA) Latin America and 57% in South Ministry of Health (MoH) spokesman Abdul- national day on 19 June, 1962, ❑ ❑ ❑ the GCC countries whose circumstances are simi- Africa. lah Al-Sanad said on Tuesday. organizing a huge military per- lar to ours. These countries, particularly the United Still, South Africa recently Speaking at a news conference, Al-Sanad formance. Then Kuwaiti Amir GENEVA: The State of Kuwait on Wednesday called on Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, did began giving the J&J vaccine stressed that authorities are still taking swabs Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al- the United Nations Human Rights Council to explicitly not close their air and sea ports like we did, thanks to front-line health workers on from the arrivals who are also subjected to Sabah said in his speech that condemn recurring violations by Israel against the Pal- a test basis after deciding that quarantine for the same purpose.
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