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Iraq has recorded its worst daily increase in infections, with 12,185 new cases, Reuters reports, citing the health ministry. That takes its total so far to 1,577,013.
It reported 71 fatalities to take its death toll to 18,418, official data published by the health ministry showed.
The former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders has urged people in Arkansas to “pray about it” before considering whether to get what she dubbed the “Trump vaccine” against Covid-19.
Sanders is running for Arkansas governor. In an opinion piece for the Arkansas Democrat Chronicle, headlined “The reasoning behind getting vaccinated”, she mostly used her platform to criticise Democrats and Anthony Fauci, chief medical adviser to President Joe Biden.
To anyone still considering the merits of vaccination. I leave you with this encouragement: Pray about it, discuss it with your family and your doctor. Filter out the noise and fear-mongering and condescension, and make the best, most informed decision you can that helps your family, community, and our great state be its very best.
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