Saudi’s education ministry has said that students over the age of 12 will require to be vaccinated to be admitted back to school
Apart from Moderna, the other vaccines currently approved for use within the country are Pfizer-BioNTech, Oxford AstraZeneca, Sputnik V and Sinopharm
UN humanitarian relief agency UNICEF has been recruiting airlines into its vast effort to distribute the vaccine to more than 170 countries
The summons to airlines was triggered by positive late-stage trial results reported by Pfizer and Moderna on two separate vaccines
A first analysis of data from more than 30,000 volunteers showed Moderna’s vaccine prevented virtually all symptomatic cases of Covid-19