Almost a third of the refugees eligible for the COVID-19 vaccine in Jordan have received their first dose, according to the UN refugee agency.
The UNHCR said that 13,455 of the 47,000 people living in Jordan’s camps who were eligible for the jabs had now received at least one dose.
UNHCR Jordan said in a statement to Arab News that, by excluding children under 18 and pregnant women from the inoculation campaign, 47,000 out of the 120,000 living in the Zaatari, Azraq and Emirati-Jordanian camps were eligible to register and receive the jabs.
It said 1,558 refugees were vaccinated on May 25 in the sprawling Zaatari camp on Jordan’s border with Syria. Two vaccination centers operate in the camp, which is home to around 80,000 Syrian refugees.
It added that another vaccination center was operating at the Azraq refugee camp, which is home to around 37,000 Syrian refugees.
Located some 100 kilometers east of Amman, Azraq was set up in 2014 as the Zaatari camp started to run out of space.
According to the UNHCR, more than 20,000 refugees are currently registered on the government platform and are awaiting their vaccination appointment.
Source: Arabnews
