{"id":28944,"date":"2021-02-26T08:38:40","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T23:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/26\/vanuatu-coronavirus-vaccine-rollout-to-take-until-end-of-2023"},"modified":"2021-02-26T08:38:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T23:38:40","slug":"vanuatu-coronavirus-vaccine-rollout-to-take-until-end-of-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=28944","title":{"rendered":"Vanuatu coronavirus vaccine rollout to take until end of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of the Pacific nation\u2019s population won\u2019t be immunised for another two years, government planning documents show<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/series\/coronavirus-live\/latest\">Coronavirus \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/coronavirus-outbreak\">See all our coronavirus coverage<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Despite a tourism-dependent economy devastated by coronavirus shutdowns, Vanuatu\u2019s Covid-19 vaccination programme will not inoculate most of its population until the end of 2023.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry of health\u2019s national deployment and vaccination plan, the first shots will be administered in April this year, but only the most vulnerable 20% of the population will get a jab in the first phase.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/feb\/26\/vanuatu-coronavirus-vaccine-rollout-to-take-until-end-of-2023\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of the Pacific nation\u2019s population won\u2019t be immunised for another two years, government planning documents showCoronavirus \u2013 latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDespite a tourism-dependent economy devastated by coronavirus shutdo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1211,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,1066,914,602,874,1439,267,282,565,323],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-coronavirus","category-infectious-diseases","category-marshall-islands","category-pacific-islands","category-palau","category-papua-new-guinea","category-south-pacific","category-vaccines-and-immunisation","category-vanuatu"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1211"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28946,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28944\/revisions\/28946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}