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Published March 16, 2021, 12:42 PM
Battered by North Atlantic weather and sometimes starved of vital supplies, the tiny Portuguese island of Corvo has a crucial advantage in the fight against the pandemic: its remoteness.
Portuguese teacher Carla Santos (L), 48, talks to the only two pupils who attend class as other four schoolmates stayed at home after having some reaction to the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, on Corvo Island in Azores on March 12, 2021. (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA / AFP)
Lying hundreds of kilometres from continental Europe, the smallest island in the Azores dominated by a volcanic crater and dotted with lakes appears to have escaped unscathed.
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The Azores smallest island has vaccinated its population and escaped pandemic almost unscathed Africanews 16/03/2021 © By Sergey @canva Landscape Sunset View to Caldeirao Crater
Life on Corvo has practically returned to normal now that almost the entire 400-strong population of the smallest island in the Azores have been voluntarily vaccinated.
While the rest of the world struggles with the coronavirus pandemic, residents of the Portuguese island can meet in cafés, bars and restaurants.
Schools are also open and masks are not required to be worn outdoors.
On Saturday as people lined up at a sports complex for their second Pfizer dose, the islands only doctor rejoiced:
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