Covid-🇸🇨

When authorities in Seychelles wished to inoculate over 70% of its estimated 98,000 population by mid-March, thanks to donated half-baked or half-trialed vaccines as part of their donor’s “vaccine diplomacy,” which would make the tourism-dependent islands the first nation to vaccinate its entire population and allow restrictions to be relaxed further.

Although the islands' relative isolation has allowed them to weather the Covid-19 storm relatively well and remain open to tourists, who needed to be confined to their hotels for 10 days upon arrival, it’s doubtful how they’d contain Covid-🇸🇨, as their visitors mostly come from places with high infection and mortality rates, which have witnessed new variants of the virus.

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