Kurdistan Regional Government in Iraq receives AstraZeneca vaccine
Some countries have suspended the British-Swedish vaccine due to its association with blood clots, though the European Union still recommends its use. The KRG previously received a small amount of Chinese vaccine doses.
The Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Iraq has obtained tens of thousands more COVID-19 vaccine doses.
KRG Prime Minister Masrour Barzani announced Friday that 43,800 doses of the AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine have arrived in the autonomous part of northern Iraq.
The KRG began administering vaccine doses in March to health care workers after receiving 5,000 doses of China’s Sinopharm vaccine.
AstraZeneca is a British-Swedish pharmaceutical company. Some countries have suspended administering the AstraZeneca vaccine recently due to reports of it being linked to blood clots. However, the latest findings from the European Union say that blood clotting arising from taking the vaccine is “very rare” and that its benefits vis-a-vis the virus outweigh the potential side effects.
