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Expats Struggle to Get Vaccines in Kuwait as Citizens Come First
People wait in line at a vaccination center in Kuwait City on March 21.
Photographer: Yasser Al-Zayyat/AFP/Getty Images
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- In the tiny, oil-rich sheikhdom of Kuwait, the foreigners who power the country's economy, serve its society and make up 70% of its population are struggling to get coronavirus vaccines.
Unlike other Gulf Arab states that have administered doses to masses of foreign workers in a race to reach herd immunity, Kuwait has come under fire for vaccinating its own people first.