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Lebanon

Healthcare workers wait to receive the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine during a coronavirus vaccination campaign at Lebanese American University Medical Center-Rizk Hospital in Beirut. (Reuters)

Lebanese fume as MPs’ behaviour puts vaccine funding at risk

Yemen

International Committee for the Red Cross International and Yemeni staff stand inside a new field hospital for coronavirus patients in the country’s main southern city of Aden. (AP)

New wave of coronavirus looms in Yemen amid figures blur

Israel

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu (2nd L) and Health Minister Yuli Edelstein (L) stand by the 4,000,000th person to be vaccinated, in Jerusalem on February 16, 2021. AFP

Netanyahu finds return on vaccine investment

tunisia

Dr Siala plays the violin for patients at the Hedi Chaker hospital in Sfax. (AP)

Tunisian doctor plays violin for hospitalised pandemic patients

tunisia

A medic wears a full-protection gear at a temporary hospitalin a gym used as a resuscitation room in the Tunisian capital Tunis. (AFP)

Virus vaccine delay adds to Tunisia’s ambient pessimism

UK

Imam Hassanat Ahmed delivers a broadcast via multiple social media platforms from the otherwise empty Noor Ul Islam Mosque in Bury, Greater Manchester, UK. (AFP)

UK imams work to dispel vaccine worries among Muslims

Israel

Arab Israelis lift placards depicting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu which read “Get lost” in Arabic, during a demonstration as he visits Nazareth, Israel’s largest Arab city, on January 13, 2021. (AFP)

Netanyahu courts Arab voters while pushing for new settlements

Lebanon

A woman wearing a face mask walks along a street, as Lebanon tightened its lockdown and introduced a 24-hour curfew to curb the spread the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Beirut, Lebanon, January 14, 2021. (Reuters)

Lebanon enters full lockdown to stem virus surge

Gulf

Cars move at Qatar’s Abu Samra border crossing with Saudi Arabia, after the two countries restored ties and opened borders, January 9, 2021. (REUTERS)

Saudi-Qatar border reopens for land traffic