Thu 12 August 2021:
The Palestinian Authority announced Thursday that it had received 150,000 doses of Pfizer vaccine, amid an uptick in COVID-19 infections in the occupied West Bank,
According to a statement from the Palestinian Authority’s health ministry in Ramallah, one million of the four million medicines requested from the pharmaceutical giant have been delivered so far.
The rest should be delivered in batches by the end of the year, it added.
Because of the spread of the more contagious Delta variant, health minister Mai al-Kaila warned at the end of last month that the Palestinian territories was facing a fourth wave of the coronavirus and urged people to get vaccinated.
Unvaccinated officials would be required to take unpaid leave until they were vaccinated, according to the government.
On Thursday, authorities identified 199 new coronavirus infections in the West Bank, which is home to 2.8 million Palestinians. In July, only a few dozen cases a day were recorded.
There have been 2,503 deaths from coronavirus in the West Bank out of a recorded 200,838 cases. In the Gaza Strip, 1,111 people have died out of 117,985 recorded cases.
The Palestinian Authority (PA) delivered 100,000 doses to Gaza, population of two-million-strong enclave administered by the Islamist party Hamas.
The Russian Sputnik vaccine provided for about half of these, while Pfizer supplied the other half.
Of the 626,300 people so far vaccinated in the West Bank and Gaza, 427,000 have received both doses.
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