VICTORIA – The president of Seychelles says he hopes enough residents will soon be vaccinated against COVID-19 to stop the spread of the virus in the Indian Ocean island nation.
Seychelles began vaccinations in January, and by the end of February, about 44% of those vaccinated had gotten a second shot. “We are hoping to achieve herd immunity mid-March when we would have vaccinated 70,000 of our people,"" Seychelles President Wavel Ramkalawan told The Associated Press in an interview last week. "That represents 70% because our population is 100,000.” So-called herd immunity is reached when enough people are protected through infection or vaccination to make it difficult for a virus to continue to spread.