A total of 70,009 people across the Maldives have received the Covid-19 vaccine from the nationwide inoculation drive.

According to the Health Protection Agency (HPA), 53,669 people have received the Covid-19 vaccine from the greater Male’ region. Out of this, 3,755 people were vaccinated in the last 24 hours.

HPA has also stated that so far 16,340 people have received the Covid-19 vaccine from outside the greater Male’ region. Out of this, 1,528 people were vaccinated in the last 24 hours.

As per the recent statistics, 5,283 people across the Maldives have received the Covid-19 vaccine in the last 24 hours.

The vaccine rollout program kicked off on February 01, with the Covishield vaccine donated by the Indian government. The 100,000 doses of the Covishield vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India arrived in the Maldives on January 20. Covishield is based on the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, co-developed by the Oxford University and AstraZeneca to combat Covid-19.

In addition to this, Maldives has also received 5,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine as a donation. The Sinopharm vaccine is developed by a Chinese company to combat Covid-19. In addition to this, China has pledged to donate 100,000 doses of the same vaccine to the Maldives.