COVID-19 pandemic
Bahrain approves a booster shot of the Sputnik V vaccine.
Sources: Gulf News
Sources: Gulf News
Kyrgyzstan receives a shipment of 80,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine.
Libya receives its first shipment of more than 100,000 doses of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine.
Seychelles approves the emergency use of the Russian Sputnik V COVID-19 vaccine.
Venezuela receives their first shipment of 100,000 doses of the Sputnik V vaccine.
Bahrain approves the Oxford–AstraZeneca vaccine for emergency use in the country.
Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Oman and Bahrain confirm their first cases of coronavirus.