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At 8 a.m. on February 14, the very minute New York made me eligible for a COVID-19 vaccine, I fired up my laptop and started looking for a shot. Over the course of five torturous minutes, I blasted my way through a laggy eligibility screener, waited for the confirmation page to unfreeze, and finally landed on the portal listing the state’s mass-vaccination sites. “Appointments available,” promised the Westchester County Center, the one closest to my house.
I clicked to sign up, but it was too late. Within 45 seconds, I moved on to Manhattan’s Javits Center, where I seemed to have nabbed an appointment but then was met with an error screen. I worked my way down the list of sites and continued to strike out. Long Island? Nothing. Albany? Nope. Binghamton? Nada. After 30 minutes of clicking, refreshing, and waiting, I finally snatched a slot: February 2
By Contributor - March 8, 2021
If it goes ahead, the Indian Ocean nation could be the first country to offer coronavirus jabs to foreign visitors.
Sunset at Hurawalhi Island Resort in the Lhaviyani Atoll. (Photo: Le Maldives/Unsplash)
Post-lockdown travelers planning longer stays in the Maldives may soon have the option of being vaccinated against Covid-19 while on holiday. According to local media outlet Raajje, the Maldivian Minister of Tourism Dr. Abdulla Mausoom has confirmed reports of a plan to introduce the “3V Tourism” initiative, whose name stands for “Visit, Vaccinate, and Vacation.” Touting the scheme as another way to promote the Indian Ocean archipelago as a safe destination during the pandemic, Mausoom explained that visitors would receive two doses of Covid-19 vaccine several weeks apart, but admitted the global shortfall in the supply of vaccines presented the biggest obstacle to its viability.
Wealthy ‘vaccine tourists’ are said to be heading to Florida to get vaccinated first. Reuters
As millions of elderly Floridians scramble to register for a limited but growing supply of Covid-19 vaccines in the United States, state officials are clamping down on so-called vaccine tourism by limiting doses to only the state’s part- and full-time residents.
Shirley Hicks, 70, a retired teacher from the state’s west coast, spent three weeks glued to her computer to find a dose for her husband Michael, 80, after Florida became one of the first states in the US allowing vaccines for those aged 65 or older.
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