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Dubai Aims to Vaccinate All Eligible Adults by End of Year

  • Daily coronavirus cases have quadrupled since November
  • New Pfizer supplies expected soon in the UAE: official

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Dubai plans to vaccinate all eligible adults by the end of the year, as the Middle East business hub uses a variety of shots and movement restrictions to contain the coronavirus.

“We are planning for 100% of eligible adults by the end of the fourth quarter of this year,” Amer Sharif, the head of Dubai’s Covid-19 Command and Control Centre, told Bloomberg TV.