The Coronavirus COVID-19 situation in the Middle East

Report: 22 September 2021

This report is also available in Arabic.

WHO corona-related statistics

Source: Al Hurra website

With vaccine production becoming of outmost importance in the Middle East, Egypt took the torch by establishing the largest vaccine production facility in the Middle East. In this way, low and middle-income countries can afford purchasing quantities of the vaccine to speed up the inoculation process.

Moreover, Iran recently approved the import of coronavirus vaccine produced by U.S. pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson, as the country faces a fifth wave of the pandemic.

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