Health

Erbil dedicates center to vaccinate people with special needs against COVID-19

The vaccination drive across the Kurdistan Region has seen a boost after Iraqi authorities received a new batch of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine recently.

Halgurd Sherwani 2021/08/18 14:45

A health care worker administer COVID-19 vaccine at an inoculation centre in Erbil, August 7, 2021. (Photo: Safin Hamed/AFP)

Kurdistan COVID-19 Krg Erbil Vaccines

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – The Kurdistan Region's capital on Wednesday announced it had set up a dedicated center for vaccinating people with special needs against COVID-19.

The decision comes after Iraq and the autonomous Kurdish region recently received new batches of COVID-19 vaccines, boosting the vaccination drive.

The Erbil-based center would facilitate the vaccination campaign for people with special needs, Dlovan Mohammad, the Erbil Director-General of Health, said in a press conference on Wednesday.

The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) recently set Saturdays for vaccinating school teachers and Tuesdays for government employees.

Last week, Iraq received 500,000 Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine doses from the US, which donated the shots through COVAX, an alliance aiming to distribute vaccine doses equitably.

Both federal and regional health workers have so far administered more than 2.5 million vaccine doses to their populations since vaccination drives began in early 2021.