KABUL
Afghanistan is planning a COVID-19 vaccine rollout stretching to the farthest corners of a nation that the government doesn’t fully control. Widespread conflict, threats to health workers, and global supply failures stand in the way.
The health ministry’s target is to vaccinate 20 percent of its population this year, and 60 percent by the end of 2022. To do this, health officials are relying on both local and international humanitarian groups to go where the government cannot.
The road to Dur Baba district, in eastern Nangarhar Province, curves around barren mountains. There are few trucks plying the unpaved gravel roads along Afghanistan’s eastern edge, just a few kilometres from the Pakistani border; most people travel by donkey or on foot.
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Uruzgan
Oruzgan
India
Iran
Helmand
Zabul
Zabol
Jalalabad
Nangarhar
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