Vaccine leader Chile wrestles with rising Covid infection rate – Yahoo News Australia

Chile is a world leader in its coronavirus vaccination program and has already given at least one dose to almost a third of its population.
By Thursday the narrow South American nation, hemmed in by the Andes mountains and the Pacific ocean, had given more than six million people a single dose and 3.1 million both doses, including most over-70s.
And yet that same day, the government put more than 80 percent of the country’s 19 million people in lockdown.
With new virus variants, believed to be more…

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