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)
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)
An Iraqi woman cleans debris next to oxygen bottles outdoors at the Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital in Baghdad, on April 25, 2021, after a fire erupted in the medical facility reserved for the most severe COVID-19 cases. (Photo: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP)
An Iraqi woman walks past a billboard advertising Baghdad's Ibn Al-Khatib Hospital after a fire erupted in the medical facility reserved for the most severe COVID-19 cases, April 25, 2021. (Photo: AFP/Ahmad Al-Rubaye)