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Comment
. 2023 Feb 18;30(1):taab097.
doi: 10.1093/jtm/taab097.

Migrants in the Middle East and North Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic

Kolitha Wickramage  1 , Chiaki Ito  2 , Mahmoud Hilali  3 , Sally Hargreaves  4 , Ana Requena-Méndez  5   6
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Migrants in the Middle East and North Africa during the COVID-19 pandemic

Kolitha Wickramage et al. J Travel Med. .

Abstract

As COVID-19 vaccine roll-out begins in the MENA region, ensuring that migrant populations have equitable access to the vaccine, designing innovative and specific mechanisms for vaccine roll-out in these areas and monitoring vaccine uptake in migrant groups are now imminent challenges.

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