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)
A woman is pictured during receiving a COVID-19 vaccine in the Kurdistan Region's Sulaimani province, July 27, 2021. (Photo: Dana Hama Gharib/Kurdistan 24)
Since its first confirmed case of the coronavirus in early 2020, the Kurdistan Region has reported 369,939 total infections and 7,060 deaths. (Photo: Archive)
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)
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