Kuwait has authorised the emergency use of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to protect people from the novel coronavirus.
The authorisation was issued after conducting a comprehensive evaluation of the vaccine's safety, efficacy and quality, Assistant Undersecretary for drug and food control Dr. Abdullah Al-Bader was quoted by KUNA as saying in a press statement on Friday.
Kuwait will receive the first batch of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine doses within days, he added.
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