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With Europe and the United States already beginning to vaccinate citizens against the Covid-19 disease, there are fears some countries may be left behind.
Here is a snapshot of what vaccines are being preferred around the Middle East and North Africa, and which treatments are being used to help those infected by the novel coronavirus.
Algeria
Treatment
Algeria opted early on to use hydroxychloroquine, along with antibiotics and cortisone treatments such as prednisolone or dexamethasone, and anti-coagulants, doctor Bekkat Berkani, a member of the national pandemic committee, told AFP.
There had been a campaign by labs to show that the anti-malarial drug hydroxychloroquine was "inefficient or risked even being dangerous," he said. But he insisted about "two billion people" take it "prophylactically for anti-malarial purposes around the world".