Iran faces fifth COVID wave amid growing Delta variant threat

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Iran is facing a fifth wave of COVID-19 as the new Delta variant continues to spread.

The country is already the worst-affected in the Middle East, with 3.5 million people infected and more than 86,000 deaths.

Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari has more on how Iran’s vaccination programme is slowly getting under way.

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