Saudi Arabia will make coronavirus vaccines free to residents - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

Nov 24, 2020

A mask-clad Pakistani traveler arriving to Saudi Arabia to perform the year-round Umrah pilgrimage is welcomed at King Abdulaziz International Airport in the Red Sea coastal city of Jeddah on Nov. 30, 2020, before being sequestered for three days as a COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic precaution. — AFP via Getty Images

A worker unloads a refrigerated truck carrying the first delivery of coronavirus vaccine via the United Nations Covax programme supporting poorer areas, to be kept at Palestinian Authority's storage facility in the West Bank city of Nablus, on March 17, 2021. - The Palestinian Authority said that vaccination would begin at the end of this week, primarily for those aged over 75, cancer patients and medical personnel.
Earlier, some 60,000 doses of Pfizer and AstraZeneca vaccines allocated to the Palestinians

Palestinians receive first batch of vaccines through COVAX

Al-Monitor Staff

Al-Monitor Staff

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Saudi Arabia to require all workers get vaccinated

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Al-Monitor Staff

Aid workers check a shipment of coronavirus vaccines sent through the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative, shortly after an Emirates plane landed at the airport in Khartoum, Sudan, Oct. 6, 2021.

Israel to donate 1 million vaccine doses to African countries via COVAX

Rina Bassist

In Paris, reporting on Israeli politics and European affairs

BEIJING, CHINA - SEPTEMBER 24: Syringes and boxes of the potential COVID-19 vaccine CoronaVac are seen on a table at Sinovac Biotech where the company is producing their potential COVID-19 vaccine CoronaVac during a media tour on September 24, 2020 in Beijing, China. Sinovacs inactivated vaccine candidate, called CoronaVac, is among a number of companies in the global race to control the coronavirus pandemic. The company is running Phase 3 human trials in four countries and ramping up production to 300 m

China looks to boost its GCC interests with 'vaccine diplomacy'

Sabena Siddiqui

Sabena Siddiqui

In Karachi, reporting on South Asia, Middle East, Iran