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Leading companies in Dubai have formed an alliance to roll out 2 billion doses of Covid-19 vaccines worldwide this year.
Emirates air carriers, DP World port operator and Dubai Airports have come together up to accelerating the circulation of inoculations through Dubai, the Gulf trade and tourism center that now aims to become a vaccination center as well.
The move “is specifically aimed at emerging markets, where populations have been hit hard by the pandemic, and pharmaceutical transport and logistics are challenging,” he said. according to the government press office.
City of Humanitarian International, a global center based in Dubai for humanitarian crisis response, has also joined the alliance.
The United Arab Emirates plans to begin manufacturing the vaccine developed by Sinopharm China this year. In addition to Sinopharm, the oil-rich country has licensed Pfizer Inc. design. and BioNTech SE, and Russia ‘s Sputnik V, and have since launched an ambitious vaccination campaign. To date it has imported a quarter of the 10 million population, the third only to Israel in the world.