Vaccine reaches world’s far corners

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — Getting the vaccine to the world’s farthest corners means delivering it by boat to Maine islands, by snowmobile to Alaska villages and by way of advanced Amazon waterways in Brazil. Though the vaccination rollout has been uneven in a lot of the world and a few locations are nonetheless ready for his or her first doses, there’s an pressing push to inoculate folks in hard-to-reach locations that won’t have had COVID-19 outbreaks but in addition will not be geared up to cope with them in the event that they do. Robin Nandy, the chief of immunization for UNICEF, says earlier than it’s over, drones, bikes, elephants, horses and camels can have been used to get vaccines to probably the most far-flung locations.