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By , RAMALLAH, West Bank/GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinians expect to receive a first batch of COVID-19 vaccine by the weekend, officials said on Tuesday - at a time when more than a quarter of their Israeli neighbours have already been inoculated.Slideshow The Palestinian Authority (PA) has ordered Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine and hopes to administer it to 50,000 residents by March, after last week granting the drug emergency approval.The PA governs in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in coordination with Israel, whose vaccination campaign has been the world’s fastest. By Tuesday morning, 28% of its 9 million citizens had received at least one dose.Israel has not extended the programme, which uses vaccines by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna Inc., to the 3.1 million Palestinians in the West Bank or the 2.1 million in the Gaza Strip, which is run by the PA’s Islamist rivals Hamas.Abdel Hafiz Nofal, Palestinian ambassador to Russia, said it would send 5,000 vaccine doses to the West Bank “by the end of the week” and would not charge for this initial consignment.“We are working to seal an agreement with the Russian government to buy 100,000 doses, which are enough to vaccinate 50,000 people,” Nofal told Reuters.Nofal envisaged the deal taking place in February, and said 100,000 was the most Moscow could sell the PA that month.Israel’s Health Ministry said it had approved the import.An Israeli official said earlier that the first batch of Sputnik V doses could arrive on Tuesday, through the West Bank’s border with Jordan, but later said there had been a hold-up.Russia’s standard export price for the two-dose Sputnik V is $18 but the cash-strapped PA was trying to negotiate a discount, Nofal said.Palestinian health officials said the first in line for the vaccines would be medical personnel, the elderly and those with chronic diseases - in Gaza as well as in the West Bank.Writing by Dan Williams; Editing by Andrew Heavens and John StonestreetOur Standards:

By , RAMALLAH, West Bank/GAZA (Reuters) - Palestinians expect to receive a first batch of COVID-19 vaccine by the weekend, officials said on Tuesday - at a time when more than a quarter of their Israeli neighbours have already been inoculated.Slideshow The Palestinian Authority (PA) has ordered Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine and hopes to administer it to 50,000 residents by March, after last week granting the drug emergency approval.The PA governs in the Israeli-occupied West Bank in coordination with Israel, whose vaccination campaign has been the world’s fastest. By Tuesday morning, 28% of...

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