Passengers watch aircraft as they wait for their flight at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 28, 2020. (Photo: Amr Nabil/AP)
Kurdistan Region officials say they have monitored a noticeable decline in the rate of coronavirus infections in recent days and weeks. (Photo: MtyUltimaHora)
Erbil Governor Omed Khoshnaw holds a child's toy truck during the inauguration of the Emirati Autism Center in the Kurdistan Region's Erbil, May 26, 2021. (Photo: Erbil Governorate)
Kurdistan Region Prime Minister Masrour Barzani (right) meets in Erbil with Mohammad al-Falahi, head of the Red Crescent Society of the UAE, May 25, 2021. (Photo: KRG)
A member of the Kurdistan Region's Peshmerga forces on Pirde Front is pictured while receiving the first shot of coronavirus vaccine, May 10, 2021. (Photo: Hoshmand Sadiq / Kurdistan 24)
An medical worker prepares a dose of the Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine to administer to health personnel at a clinic in Baghdad, Iraq, March 2, 2021. (Photo: Hadi Mizban/AP)
Passengers watch aircraft as they wait for their flight at King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, July 28, 2020. (Photo: Amr Nabil/AP)
An Iraqi woman walks past a billboard bearing the name of Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital in Baghdad, after a fire erupted in the medical facility reserved for the most severe COVID-19 cases, April 25, 2021. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye / 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)