INA – Baghdad
Ministry of Health denied that Iraq had submitted a medical aid request from US against COVID-19.
"The talk about Iraq's request for medical assistance from America against Coronavirus is untrue, and we, as the Ministry of Health, deny it altogether," said the ministry's spokesman, Saif Al-Badr, in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency – INA.
“Iraq has a clear agreement through the Iraqi government and according to official channels, and the quantities that Iraq will receive are in return for money," stressing that "any supply of vaccines is in accordance with known and specific work contexts declared to the public opinion,"