An-Najah News - Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said Monday at the opening of the weekly cabinet meeting held in Ramallah that coronavirus vaccine, which Palestine expects to start arriving early next year, will not be compulsory, and priority will be given to medical staff and the elderly, today said affirming that Shtayyeh Palestine will adopt the World Health Organization standard in the vaccination.

"All Palestinians are a priority to us. But there are people who are more vulnerable to infection than others, be it medical personnel, ill people, the elderly, etc.. All of this will be based on a sound and clear basis," he said.

Palestinian health officials said four million doses of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine, Sputnik V, are expected in Palestine in the near future.