Saudi Arabia assures people of vaccine's safety

The Saudi Ministry of Health continues to call on the public to get information about COVID-19 vaccines from official sources and to not follow rumors.

The ministry announced that rumors about deaths caused one year after taking the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine are false, stressing that those who have taken their jabs are in good health.

It added that the safety of vaccines is scientifically proven and their effectiveness on individuals and society will be one of the most important weapons in the face of the pandemic.

Dr. Muhammad Al-Abd Al-Aly, assistant minister of health and ministry’s spokesperson, stressed that Saudi nationals and expatriates had high levels of awareness of the virus, demonstrated by adherence to precautionary measures. He said that there is an increasing demand for vaccinations.

The ministry also announced that those who received the COVID-19 vaccine outside the Kingdom can now register their information in Saudi systems, including the Tawakkalna app.

The approved vaccines in the Kingdom are Pfizer-BioNTech, Moderna, Oxford-AstraZeneca, and Johnson & Johnson’s Janssen.

Testing hubs and treatment centers set up throughout the country have dealt with hundreds of thousands of people since the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak. Meanwhile, 15,028,653 people in the country had to date received a jab against COVID-19.