Only two countries have fully vaccinated more than half of their populations, according to the Our World in Data project at the University of Oxford. They are Israel and the East African nation of the Seychelles, an archipelago with a population of fewer than 100,000. Less than 10 percent of India’s vast population is at least partly vaccinated, offering little check to its onslaught of infections. New Zealand, through stringent lockdowns and border closures, has all but eliminated the virus. “It may be endemic, but not in a life-threatening way,” Dr. Michael Merson, a professor of global health at Duke University and former director of the World Health Organization’s Global Program on AIDS said.

Source: New York Times May 10, 2021 13:41 UTC