President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih visited Masjid-al-Sultan Muhammad Thakurufaanu Al Auzam - the Islamic Centre in capital Male'- Sunday afternoon and reviewed the progress of the new COVID-19 vaccination programme aimed at children between the ages of 12 and 17 years.
With the initiation of this ambitious programme, the Maldives is one of the first nations in the world to initiate vaccination for young children. Last week, President Ibrahim Mohamed Solih had revealed 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 further revealed that the Maldives had also successfully acquired enough doses of the vaccine to inoculate all residents of all ages.
Over 80 percent 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 by the end of the previous week. Under the ongoing nationwide mass vaccination programme, the government aims to fully inoculate 90 percent of the eligible population by the end of August 2021.
