Asia s Economic Recovery Put at Risk by Slow Pace of Shots
Earlier success has made it less urgent for many countries to move quickly in vaccinating their citizens
published : 4 Mar 2021 at 04:00 A nurse received a Covid-19 vaccine in Bangkok on Monday as Thailand rolled out its national vaccination program. Bangkok Post
Asian nations led the world in crushing Covid-19 in 2020. Now some are being hamstrung by border closures and other rules they imposed to stay safe, potentially putting them behind the U.S. and other countries in leading the global economic recovery.
Countries such as China, Thailand and Australia virtually halted the coronavirus within their borders by shutting off entry to most outsiders and aggressively quashing infections that slipped in. Their citizens live near-normal lives and their economies, with some exceptions, haven t crashed as hard as those in the West. China managed to grow its gross domesti
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