{"id":987645577,"date":"2021-04-22T05:46:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T04:46:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/syria-receives-its-first-delivery-of-covid-19-vaccines-through-the-covax-facility\/"},"modified":"2021-04-22T05:46:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T04:46:40","slug":"syria-receives-its-first-delivery-of-covid-19-vaccines-through-the-covax-facility","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/syria-receives-its-first-delivery-of-covid-19-vaccines-through-the-covax-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria receives its first delivery of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>AMMAN\/CAIRO\/GENEVA, 22 April 2021<\/strong> -\u201cSyria received 256,800 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, the first COVAX delivery of vaccines to reach the war-torn country. This delivery of AstraZeneca vaccines (from the Serum Institute of India) will be given to frontline health workers across Syria, including the northeast and northwest.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Statement from UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, Ted Chaiban, WHO Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean, Dr. Ahmad Al-Mandhari, and Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance Director of Country Support, Pascal Bijleveld<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicef.ca\/en\/press-release\/syria-receives-its-first-delivery-covid-19-vaccines-through-covax-facility\">https:\/\/www.unicef.ca\/en\/press-release\/syria-receives-its-first-delivery-covid-19-vaccines-through-covax-facility<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; AMMAN\/CAIRO\/GENEVA, 22 April 2021 -\u201cSyria received 256,800 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, the first COVAX delivery of vaccines to reach the war-torn country. This delivery of AstraZeneca vaccines (from the Serum Institute of India) will be given to frontline health workers across Syria, including the northeast and northwest. &nbsp; Statement from UNICEF Regional Director&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[],"tags":[124],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987645577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987645577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987645577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987645577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987645577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987645577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}