{"id":7863,"date":"2021-04-16T03:55:22","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T03:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=7863"},"modified":"2021-04-22T04:02:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T04:02:48","slug":"somalia-rolls-out-sinopharm-vaccine-in-fight-against-covid-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2021\/04\/16\/somalia-rolls-out-sinopharm-vaccine-in-fight-against-covid-19\/","title":{"rendered":"Somalia rolls out Sinopharm vaccine in fight against Covid-19"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>MOGADISHU &#8212;<\/strong> Somalia&#8217;s health ministry on Wednesday rolled out doses of Sinopharm vaccine donated by China to boost the war against COVID-19 pandemic in the Horn of the African nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country&#8217;s deputy minister of health Ahmed Hussein received his first dose of the Sinopharm vaccine during the launch of the exercise in Mogadishu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Hussein said his country was grateful to China for the support in the fight against COVID-19 in Somalia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The rollout of the jabs at a hospital in Mogadishu comes after Somalia on April 11 received a batch of Sinopharm vaccine.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Somalia rolled out its mass vaccination on March 16, having received vaccines through the COVAX facility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The ministry of health said it is giving priority to the frontline health workers, essential service providers and the elderly.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The country had reported 12,406 cases, including 5,222 recoveries and 618 deaths, as of April 11.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>Source: Xinhua\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Origin:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2021-04\/15\/c_139882800.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener sponsored ugc noreferrer\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"> View original<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOGADISHU &#8212; Somalia&#8217;s health ministry on Wednesday rolled out doses of Sinopharm vaccine donated by China to boost the war against COVID-19 pandemic in the Horn of the African nation. The country&#8217;s deputy minister of health Ahmed Hussein received his first dose of the Sinopharm vaccine during the launch of the exercise in Mogadishu. Hussein &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-health-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7863"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7866,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7863\/revisions\/7866"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}