{"id":114606,"date":"2021-02-22T10:18:16","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T02:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=114606"},"modified":"2021-02-22T10:18:18","modified_gmt":"2021-02-22T02:18:18","slug":"covid-19-gaza-strip-receives-20000-doses-of-vaccines-funded-by-uae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=114606","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Gaza Strip receives 20,000 doses of vaccines funded by UAE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2021-02\/22\/139757212_16139490739191n.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\">Medical workers unload COVID-19 vaccines from a truck at Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>GAZA, Feb 22 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; A total of 20,000 doses of Russia&#8217;s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccines, funded by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), arrived in the Gaza Strip on Sunday through the Rafah border crossing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Today, we have received the shipment of COVID-19 vaccines funded by the UAE,&#8221; Ghazi Hamad, undersecretary of the Hamas-run ministry of social development, told reporters at the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamad added that the UAE will send more doses of coronavirus vaccines to the Gaza Strip in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The arrival of the coronavirus vaccines in the Palestinian coastal enclave is &#8220;an important opportunity to save the people in Gaza Strip from the spread of the virus in light of the lack of medical staff as well as equipment,&#8221; Hamad said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hamas official expressed his gratitude to the UAE, which has been continuing its support to the people in the Gaza Strip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, the Hamas-run Ministry of Health said in a statement that it will launch a vaccination campaign on Monday morning to inoculate its medical staff members in the forefront of the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, adding that it will also vaccinate those who are vulnerable to the infection of the virus, especially the elderly people.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Wednesday, the ministry already received a batch of 2,000 doses of Sputnik V coronavirus vaccines, dispatched by the Palestinian Ministry of Health in the West Bank city of Ramallah. The batch of the vaccines was sent to the Gaza Strip through the Israeli-controlled commercial crossing point of Kerem Shalom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gaza Strip has recorded a total of 54,642 coronavirus cases, while the tally of infections in the Palestinian territories amounted to 196,439 since March last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The internal Palestinian division between the Islamic Hamas movement and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas-led Fatah party began in 2007 when Hamas forcibly took over the Gaza Strip from Fatah. Since then, the Palestinian territories have been split into the Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip and the Fatah-dominated West Bank. &#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Medical workers unload COVID-19 vaccines from a truck at Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip city of Rafah GAZA, Feb 22 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; A total of 20,000 doses of Russia&#8217;s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccines, funded by the United Arab Emirates (UAE), arrived in the Gaza Strip on Sunday through the Rafah border crossing. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":114607,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[217],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114606"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=114606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=114606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=114606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=114606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}