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A view of Kuwait Covid-19 vaccination centre in Kuwait City. EPA
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Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al Khaled Al Sabah receives a Pfizer-BioTech Covid-19 vaccine injection at a vaccination centre in the capital Kuwait City. AFP
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Nourah Abdulla, head of the infectious control centre at Al Jaber Hospital, holds a vial of a Covid-19 vaccine in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Reuters
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A medic prepares a Pfizer-BioTech Covid-19 vaccine injection in the capital Kuwait City. AFP
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Kuwaiti Health Minister Sheikh Basel Al-Sabah receives the first dose of the Pfizer-BioTech Covid-19 vaccine in Kuwait. EPA
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Tareq Eid Al-Mezrem, Head of Government Center Council of Ministers General Secretary, gets a dose of Covid-19 vaccine in Kuwait City. Reuters
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A Kuwaiti man, Abdulla al Anazi, gets a dose of Covid-19 vaccine in Kuwait City. Reuters
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A Kuwaiti receives the first dose of Pfizer-BioTech Covid-19 vaccine injection in Kuwait City. EPA
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Kuwaiti people receive the first dose of Pfizer-BioTech Covid-19 vaccine in Kuwait City. EPA
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People wait outside a vaccination centre in Kuwait City. EPA
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A view of Kuwait Covid-19 vaccination centre in Kuwait City. EPA
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Kuwaiti Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al Khaled Al Sabah receives a Pfizer-BioTech Covid-19 vaccine injection at a vaccination centre in the capital Kuwait City. AFP
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Nourah Abdulla, head of the infectious control centre at Al Jaber Hospital, holds a vial of a Covid-19 vaccine in Kuwait City, Kuwait. Reuters
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A medic prepares a Pfizer-BioTech Covid-19 vaccine injection in the capital Kuwait City. AFP
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Kuwaiti Health Minister Sheikh Basel Al-Sabah receives the first dose of the Pfizer-BioTech Covid-19 vaccine in Kuwait. EPA
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Tareq Eid Al-Mezrem, Head of Government Center Council of Ministers General Secretary, gets a dose of Covid-19 vaccine in Kuwait City. Reuters
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A Kuwaiti man, Abdulla al Anazi, gets a dose of Covid-19 vaccine in Kuwait City. Reuters
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A Kuwaiti receives the first dose of Pfizer-BioTech Covid-19 vaccine injection in Kuwait City. EPA
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Kuwaiti people receive the first dose of Pfizer-BioTech Covid-19 vaccine in Kuwait City. EPA
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People wait outside a vaccination centre in Kuwait City. EPA
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A view of Kuwait Covid-19 vaccination centre in Kuwait City. EPA
Kuwait begins Covid-19 inoculations with Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine
Prime Minister Sabah Al Khaled assured people of the vaccine's safety as he received the first dose
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The National
25 December, 2020
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