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.
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.
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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.
