The Gaza Strip is set to receive its first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday after Israel approved the transfer through its border, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.
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Gaza has reported more than 53,000 coronavirus cases and 538 deaths.
The officials said the shipment, sent by the Palestinian Authority, was slated to arrive in Gaza later in the day and include 2,000 doses of Russia's Sputnik V vaccine, enough to inoculate 1,000 people in a two-shot regimen.
"We will use the doses to vaccinate patients who had organ transplants and those who suffer kidney failure," Majdi Dhair, a Gaza health ministry official, told Reuters.
