Riyadh: The good news for the Saudi people is that the first dose of the vaccine in the kingdom alone has reduced the coronavirus infection rate by 71%.
Saudi Arabia’s Health Secretary Dr. Abdullah al-Asiri says the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine has reduced the incidence of cholera by 71 percent, while critical cases have dropped by 80. percent.
He said that these are the results of only the first dose of the vaccine while the proportion of those who take the second dose has reached 35%, whose effect has become noticeable in the case of reduction of new cases.
Dr. Abdullah said that the higher the ratio of the second dose, the faster the number of victims is falling, full vaccination can eradicate the epidemic.
Saudi Arabia has achieved great success
So far, 31,825,756 doses of the corona vaccine have been administered in Saudi Arabia.
According to one statistic, 27 million people in the country received the first dose and 11 million people received the second dose, while 1.53 million elderly received the first dose.
Important announcement from the Saudi government
In the last 24 hours, more than 254,000 Saudis and foreigners have been vaccinated.