A member of the Kurdistan Region’s Peshmerga forces on Pirde Front is pictured while receiving his first dose of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine, May 10, 2021. (Photo: Hoshmand Sadiq / Kurdistan 24)
An Iraqi man is vaccinated against Covid-19 with the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine at a private nursing home in Baghdad, March 2, 2021. (Photo: Sabah Arar / AFP)
A follower of Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr holds a picture of him while waiting with others to receive a dose of the Chinese Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine in Sadr City, Baghdad, Iraq, May 4, 2021. (Photo: Hadi Mizban/AP)
Goran Osman Aziz, health worker in Erbil, became the first person to receive the Sinopharm vaccine, March, 4, 2021. (Photo: Rebaz Siyan / Kurdistan 24)
Qani Muhyyadin, a Syrian refugee, is pictured as he receives the first dose of AstraZeneca vaccine in the Kurdistan Region's Duhok province, April 2, 2021. (Photo: UNHCR / Twitter)
People sit on the beach in Kilyos, northern Istanbul, Thursday, April 29, 2021, a few hours before the start of the latest lockdown to help protect from the spread of the coronavirus in Turkey. (Photo: Emrah Gurel / AP)
Medical workers oversee the disinfection of streets in order to halt the spread of the coronavirus in the northern Syrian city of Qamishli. (Photo: AP/Baderkhan Ahmad)