AMMAN — The Health Ministry is taking steps towards adding the chickenpox vaccine to the National Immunisation Programme by 2025, an official said on Sunday, expecting the  dose to be on healthcare centres’ shelves within the first half of next year. 

Director of the Communicable Diseases Directorate at the Health Ministry, Mohammad Hawarat, said that “the ministry is currently making its final arrangements relating to adding the pneumococcal vaccine to the National Vaccination Programme”,