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Gazans lack coronavirus vaccines during World Immunization Week

Ashraf Shannon
PRESS TV, Gaza

As the world is commemorating World Immunization Week, huge gaps still exist in vaccine equity for Palestinians in the blockaded Gaza Strip. The Israeli regime continues to place tight restrictions on the entry of humanitarian supplies including inoculations for the coronavirus.

World Immunization Week – celebrated every year in the last week of April – aims to promote the use of vaccines to protect people of all ages against disease.

The Gaza Strip has only received enough vaccines for about fifty thousand people.

More vaccines are desperately needed as the current volume of doses is not enough for the more than two million people living in Gaza.

Despite the increasing number of COVID-19 infections in the Gaza Strip the Israeli regime continues to place tight restrictions on the entry of medical supplies including vaccines.

The surge in infections and deaths is threatening to overwhelm hospitals weakened by years of Israeli blockade. Currently there are some fifteen thousand active coronavirus cases in the Gaza Strip.

The weakness of the healthcare system makes Gaza's population highly vulnerable to further major outbreaks of the deadly pandemic. The enclave’s health sector has been battered by the Israeli blockade and multiple wars.

The Gaza Strip is currently witnessing the worst wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Rights groups say Israel’s illegal practices have compounded the risk of coronavirus infection for nearly two million Palestinians living in the besieged coastal strip. The measures, they say, are making it extremely difficult to combat the deadly pandemic.


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