Yemen gets first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Mar 31, 2021

Boxes containing vials of the AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD vaccine (a version of the vaccine produced in India) against the coronavirus, are unloaded upon the arrival of the first shipment at the airport of Yemen's southern port city of Aden, on March 31, 2021. — Boxes containing vials of the AstraZeneca/COVISHIELD vaccine (a version of the vaccine produced in India) are unloaded upon the arrival of the first shipment at the airport of Yemen's southern port city of Aden, March 31, 2021. — SALEH OBAIDI/AFP via Getty Images

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