Kuwait unlikely to import vaccine Sputnik V

Kuwait government’s target is to increase registration for Covid-19 vaccine and give the vaccine to 1.5 million citizens and residents out of 2.5 million people targeted before the last ten days of Ramadan, given the fact the vaccination is the only way to reduce infections with the coronavirus, reports Al-Anba daily.

The health sources said the reports are encouraging and that the 650,000 people from now until April 22, when the implementation of partial curfew will be looked into corresponding to the 10th of Ramadan, the Ministry of Health will have completed vaccinating one million people at the rate of vaccinating 21,000 people every day.

Kuwait has already approved the use of three other COVID-19 vaccines: Pfizer-BioNTech, Oxford-AstraZeneca and Moderna.

Kuwait is unlikely to import the Russian-made vaccine Sputnik V. “This vaccine has not been approved by the specialised global health organisations,” a source said.

“All the vaccines are regularly examined by a competent committee at the Kuwaiti Health Ministry,” the source added. “The ministry will not import any vaccines of which there are no clear scientific studies on their clinical tests.”