Health Protection Agency (HPA) has revealed over 85,000 people have been vaccinated against COVID-19 in the Maldives.
HPA revealed 4,962people were administered the COVID-19 vaccine on February 23. This includes 2,700 people in the Male’ area and 2,262 people in the atolls.
Since the beginning of the vaccination programme on February 1, a total of 85,110 people have been vaccinated including 61,777 people in the Male’ area, 23,333 people in the atolls.
The first round of the vaccination in the Maldives will see the rollout of 100,000 doses of Covishield vaccine, granted to the Maldives by India. Two shots of the vaccine are required to complete the dosage, with 4-12 weeks required between the two shots. Maldives will administer the second dose 8 weeks after the first dose.