Prognosis
Seychelles Tests Samples to Try Get to Grips With Virus Surge
- Country has fully inoculated more than 60% of its population
- Seychelles has administered Sinopharm, AstraZeneca shots
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Seychelles will send samples taken from people who contracted Covid-19 for analysis in Kenya to understand why infections increased despite it having vaccinated a greater proportion of its population against the disease than any other nation.
Almost one in 10 people on the palm-fringed Indian Ocean archipelago has tested positive for the coronavirus and while the rate of new cases is slowing, it has shown a surge in recent weeks. A third of the 2,739 people with active Covid-19 infections had received two doses of either Sinopharm or AstraZeneca Plc vaccines, and the increase in the caseload has raised questions about their efficacy.