The Undersecretary of the Ministry of Health for Public Health, Dr. Hani Joukhadar, said that the Kingdom will not dispense with precautionary measures and masks before the middle of the next year. He explained, during his interview with Al-Arabiya channel today, Thursday, that the vaccination campaign against the Corona virus (Covid-19) is one of the largest campaigns in the history of the Kingdom, as well as in the world, as the world has not witnessed such a magnitude before.
He added that if vaccination reaches 50-60% of the Kingdom’s population, then we can reduce the precautions and dispense with masks before the sixth month of the next calendar year 2021.
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— العربية السعودية (@AlArabiya_KSA) December 24, 2020