Riyadh – Mubasher: Saudi Arabia is still in talks with Russia and China to source coronavirus vaccines after the kingdom rolled out a programme to administer the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine.
In an interview with Bloomberg TV, Assistant Deputy Minister of Health, Abdullah Assiri, said, “The process is ongoing and data is being shared, but we have not yet reached a decision.”
“We don’t expect other vaccines to reach Saudi Arabia maybe until the first quarter of 2021,” he added.
Saudi Arabia, which approved the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine earlier this month, halted international flights and closed its borders on Monday for one week over fears about the fast-spreading new strain of the coronavirus.
