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TODAY
February 4, 2021
The Palestinian Authority (PA) is set to receive 10,000 doses of Russia’s Sputnik COVID-19 vaccine, Health Minister Mai Alkaila, said on Thursday.
The vaccines landed in a cargo plane at Israel’s Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, from where they would be transported to the West Bank.
The Palestinian government had purchased two million doses of the vaccine, which should arrive in the occupied autonomous territory between Feb. 14 and Feb. 20, according to a statement from the minister’s office in the central West Bank city of Ramallah.
The PA launched its COVID-19 vaccination campaign on Tuesday, using 2,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine delivered to the West Bank by Israel, which started its mass vaccination campaign six weeks earlier.