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Middle East countries set to benefit from Biden’s global vaccine initiative

A US State Department spokesperson told Al-Monitor that hard-hit Iran will not be receiving doses at this time.
A Palestinian member of a Health Ministry mobile unit vaccinates elderly Palestinians against the coronavirus, in the village of Dura near Hebron, West Bank, June 9, 2021.

The Biden administration has promised to send coronavirus vaccine doses to the Palestinian territories, Iraq and several other countries in the Middle East.

The plan is to share around 6 million doses with countries including Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Yemen, as well as the West Bank and Gaza Strip, a State Department spokesperson told Al-Monitor on Wednesday.

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