Foreigners made to wait for vaccines in oil-rich Kuwait

People stand in line at Kuwait Vaccination Centre to get the vaccine (Kuna/AP)

The foreigners who power Kuwait’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, the oil-rich sheikhdom has come under fire for vaccinating its own people first.