MUSCAT: The availability of vaccines has had a significant positive effect in experiencing a gradual return to normal life, Oman’s Foreign Minister said.
Addressing the 76th session of UN General Assembly, His Excellency Sayyid Badr Bin Hamad Al Busaidi highlighted the efforts exerted by the Sultanate while dealing with coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
“Crises and challenges are also opportunities for nations to test their readiness and enhance their capabilities. Despite the great challenges and hurdles posed to our daily lives by Covid-19, the pandemic did not discourage us, neither did weaken our resolve to confront it or address its impacts and repercussions,” he said.
“In the Sultanate of Oman, the availability of vaccines has had a significant positive effect in strengthening our drive to address this pandemic. This consolidated our hope to eradicate the pandemic and experience a gradual return to normal life,” said Sayyid Badr.
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“Through preventive measures and by conducting the National Immunisation Campaign (covering all targeted age-groups), my country has been able to curb the spread of the epidemic and cut down the number of infections deaths and cases of hospitalization. This helped us resume to normalcy all economic, commercial and social activities and opening all sorts of travel, while at the same time adhering to preventive and precautionary measures,” Sayyid Badr added.
According to the latest Ministry of Health (MOH) report more than two million people in the target group have been fully vaccinated.
