About 60,000 persons including students of primary schools have been vaccinated so far against swine flu (H1N1) in the Kingdom since the start of the vaccination campaign, the Ministry of Health announced Saturday. It stressed that no severe complications have been registered. The ministry called upon all citizens and residents to be vaccinated at primary health care centers effective Jan. 6. Dr. Khaled Marghalani, Director of Information and Health Awareness at the Ministry of Health, also confirmed that no severe side effects had been reported in more than 60,000 people who were vaccinated against swine flu. The number of deaths from the swine flu disease in the Kingdom stands at 124 – most of them children, young people and pregnant women. Around 15,500 cases of swine flu have so far been reported in the Kingdom. Marghalani said that more than 65 million people around the world – including 44 million in the United States – had been vaccinated, noting that the side effects are no different than those of other inoculums. The Ministry of Health called upon parents to have their children inoculated especially as the third epidemic wave of the disease is expected to be the most severe because of low temperature.
