The Johnson & Johnson coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine is seen at the OSU Wexner Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio, U.S. March 2, 2021. REUTERS/Gaelen Morse/File Photo
ADEN: Yemen received its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines made by Johnson & Johnson on Sunday, roughly 151,000 doses, the health ministry said.
The country received 360,000 doses of AstraZeneca's vaccine in March through COVAX.
This shipment is the first batch of a total of 504,000 doses it is set to receive from the United States.
The single-dose vaccines arrived as the United Nations warned early this month that Yemen, where only roughly 1% of the population is vaccinated, faces a third wave of COVID-19.
The disease has killed 1,450 people in areas controlled by the internationally-recognised government of Yemen based in Aden, out of a total 7,751 recorded infections.
Yemen is set to receive doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine from COVAX next month.
