Afghanistan received 500,000 doses of AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine from India on Sunday, the first to arrive in the country, which is still waiting for emergency approval from the World Health Organization before it can use them.
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Ghulam Dastagir Nazari, head of the immunization program at the health ministry said the doses would be stored in Kabul until the emergency authorization was received, which it hoped would happen in a week.
The vaccines were produced by the Serum Institute of India (SII), which is producing the AstraZenecca/Oxford University vaccine for mid- and low-income countries.
Health workers, security force members, teachers and government employees would receive the vaccine first, Nazari said.
