Desperate for vaccines amid surge, Iranians flock to Armenia
The Hindu
Acting Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said last week that foreigners, including residents, have accounted for up to half of about 1,10,000 people who were vaccinated in the country.
In Iran, the urgency of getting vaccinated against COVID-19 is growing by the day. A crush of new cases fuelled by the fast-spreading delta variant has threatened to overwhelm Iranian hospitals with breathless patients too numerous to handle. But as deaths mount, and the sense swells that protection for most citizens remains far-off, thousands of desperate Iranians are taking matters into their own hands: They’re flocking to neighboring Armenia.More Related News
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