World’s most vaccinated nation reintroduces curbs as instances surge

Seychelles, which has totally vaccinated extra of its inhabitants in opposition to Covid-19 than some other nation, has closed faculties and canceled sporting actions for 2 weeks as infections surge.
The measures, which embrace bans on the intermingling of households and the early closure of bars, come even because the nation has totally vaccinated greater than 60% of its grownup inhabitants with two doses of coronavirus vaccines. The curbs are just like these final imposed on the finish of 2020.
“Despite of all the exceptional efforts we are making, the Covid-19 situation in our country is critical right now with many daily cases reported last week,” Peggy Vidot, the nation’s well being minister, mentioned at a press convention Monday.

The Indian Ocean archipelago, which has a inhabitants of about 98,000, relies on tourism for a lot of its overseas change and acted rapidly to start vaccinations in January utilizing a donation of Chinese vaccines from the United Arab Emirates. It has procured different vaccines since.

To date 62.2% of its eligible inhabitants is totally vaccinated, in line with the Bloomberg Vaccine Tracker. That compares with 55.9% for Israel, the subsequent most vaccinated nation.
Officials on the press convention gave little element on what may very well be behind the an infection surge apart from to say folks had been taking much less precautions in opposition to the virus than earlier than.