{"id":117290,"date":"2021-04-05T10:33:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T02:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117290"},"modified":"2021-04-05T10:33:33","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T02:33:33","slug":"covid-19-1st-shipment-of-russias-sputnik-v-vaccine-arrives-in-libyas-tripoli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=117290","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: 1st shipment of Russia&#8217;s Sputnik V vaccine arrives in Libya&#8217;s Tripoli"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/www.xinhuanet.com\/english\/africa\/2021-04\/05\/139858648_16175819510771n.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>TRIPOLI, April 5 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The Libyan Minister of Health Ali Zanati announced that a shipment of 101,250 dozes of Russia&#8217;s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, provided by the United Arab Emirates, arrived in Libyan capital Tripoli.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts supervised the distribution of the vaccine to special medicine cooling stores across the country at -18 degrees celsius, Zanati told a press conference in Tripoli, confirming that a vaccination campaign will begin soon and that he will be the first to receive the vaccine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He said that the country is expecting about one million dozes of vaccine on April 11, and the total number of vaccine Libya expects to receive is five million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Priority for vaccination will be for medical staff treating COVID-19 patients inside isolation units, followed by the elderly, those with chronic diseases, and then medical workers in different hospitals and medical centers, the minister added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Libya&#8217;s National Center for Disease Control, the total number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Libya so far is 162,294, including 149,238 recoveries and 2,737 fatalities.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TRIPOLI, April 5 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; The Libyan Minister of Health Ali Zanati announced that a shipment of 101,250 dozes of Russia&#8217;s Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine, provided by the United Arab Emirates, arrived in Libyan capital Tripoli. Experts supervised the distribution of the vaccine to special medicine cooling stores across the country at -18 degrees celsius, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":117291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117290"}],"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=117290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/117291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=117290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=117290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=117290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}