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With COVID-19 crisis close by, East Timor sweats on vaccine delivery Reuters 2/17/2021 By Kate Lamb and Nelson da Cruz DILI, Feb 17 (Reuters) - A short, porous border is all that separates tiny East Timor from one of Asia's biggest coronavirus epidemics in neighbouring Indonesia. So after successfully containing the virus for months, the impoverished half-island nation is counting down the days until its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines arrive. The former Portuguese colony this week announced that a national immunisation plan had been approved, with vaccines set to arrive at the start of th...

By Kate Lamb and Nelson da Cruz DILI, Feb 17 (Reuters) - A short, porous border is all that separates tiny East Timor from one of Asia's biggest coronavirus epidemics in neighbouring Indonesia. So after successfully containing the virus for months, the impoverished half-island nation is counting down the days until its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines arrive. The former Portuguese colony this week announced that a national immunisation plan had been approved, with vaccines set to arrive at the start of the second quarter under the international vaccine-sharing programme COVAX. With no known c...