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 donorβs β
vaccine diplomacy,β 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, itβs doubtful how theyβd contain Covid-πΈπ¨, as their visitors mostly come from places with high
infection and mortality rates, which have witnessed new variants of the virus.