Immunisation drive starts today for UAE based workforce
Karachi / Dubai, 18
January 2021: The Emirates Group today rolled out a
COVID-19 vaccination programme for its substantial UAE based workforce in
coordination with the Dubai Health Authority and the Ministry of Health and
Prevention.
The inoculation
drive began this morning, with priority being placed on its frontline aviation
workforce, including Cabin Crew, Flight Deck and other operationally focused
roles.
The airline,
along with dnata, are among the first transport and air services organisations
in the world to offer employees the option to get vaccinated against the
COVID-19 virus. Over the course of the pandemic, Emirates and dnata have
implemented multiple layers of safety measures, to ensure the health and safety
of customers, employees and the communities served. The rollout of its
vaccination programme is another step forward, helping to safeguard the health
and wellbeing of aviation employees who serve the travelling public and help
move essential goods around the world.
The Emirates
Group is making both the Pfizer-BioNTech and Sinopharm vaccines, which have
been approved by the UAE health authorities, conveniently accessible to its
employees at various company locations across the UAE. Inoculation appointments
will run 12 hours a day, 7 days a week to ensure as many essential aviation
workers as possible can get the vaccine. Like all citizens and residents,
Emirates Group employees in the UAE can also opt to get vaccinated at
government designated medical centres and clinics, as the UAE’s leadership and
health authorities have spared no effort to make vaccines free and accessible
to the population.
According to the
data compiled by Our World In Data, a research website based at Oxford
University, the UAE is ranked second highest in the world for vaccination
rates, with over 19.04 doses administrated for every 100 people, and close to
1.9 million vaccinations have been given to citizens and residents since their
rollout in December 2020. The UAE is also on track to inoculate over 50% of its
population by the end of March.
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