The Bhutan managed to vaccinate the vast majority of its adult population against Covid-19, who received the second dose in a week-long lightning campaign made possible by the massive influx of vaccine doses in the form of donations from abroad. in a “success story” of a vaccination campaign according to Unicef.
More than 454,000 doses were administered last week in the small Himalayan kingdom, a figure that accounts for more than 85% of the adult population of more than 530,000.
UNICEF spokesman Will Parks hailed the campaign as “a great ‘success story for Bhutan'” yesterday.
«We really need a world where countries with surplus vaccine doses distribute them to those who have not yet received doses“, Parks stressed at the French Agency in the capital Timfou.
In late March and early April, Bhutan had rapidly used more than 550,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine given to it by India before the latter was forced to suspend exports due to a catastrophic pandemic wave.
The kingdom, located between India and China, had then appealed for donations so that it could provide the second installments on time. In mid-July, it received approximately 500,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine administered by the United States through the international Covax mechanism and 250,000 doses of AstraZeneca from Denmark.
More than 150,000 doses of AstraZeneca, Pfizer and Sinopharm vaccines shipped from Croatia, Bulgaria and China will reach the small country of South Asia, with a population of 770,000.
The country’s government, according to the Athens News Agency, also bought 200,000 doses of vaccine Pfizer, for delivery later this year.
From the beginning of the pandemic Bhutan has recorded just under 2,500 Covid-19 cases and two deaths, according to official figures..
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