A Kurdish medic brings an oxygen bottle to a COVID-19 patient at a hospital in the Kurdistan Region's Duhok province, July 27, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
A nurse holds a used vial of Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 coronavirus vaccine at a vaccination center in the Kindi Hospital in Iraq's capital Baghdad, April 14, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad al-Rubaye / AFP)
A medic analyses samples from COVID-19 patients at a hospital in the Kurdistan Region’s northern city of Duhok, July 27, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
A medic checks an elderly man's temperature as he arrives to receive the Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccine at an inoculation centre in Erbil, August 7, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
A medic analyses samples from COVID-19 patients at a hospital in the Kurdistan Region’s northern city of Duhok, July 27, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)
A patient walks in an alley at the Al-Wahda hospital, opened by Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in 2018, in Iraq's northern city of Mosul, Dec. 16, 2021. (Photo: Zaid al-Obeidi/AFP)