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)
An actor in the role of the Imam Hussein, grandson of the Prophet Mohamed, enacts a scene from a play titled "The Resurrection of the Earth" produced by the Hashed al-Shaabi, Dec. 29, 2021. (Photo: Hussein Faleh/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)
Dlovan Mohammad, the head of Erbil Health Directorate (right) signing a memorandum of understanding with Esther van der Woerdt, head of MSF's Mission in Iraq, Jan. 4, 2022. (Photo: MSF)
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)