U.N. sees massive drop in COVID vaccinations in Afghanistan after Taliban takeover

Since the Taliban takeover 'there's been an 80% drop in people reached with COVID-19 vaccines,' a spokesperson for UNICEF told Reuters. In the week starting on Aug. 15, 30,500 people had been vaccinated in 23 of the 34 provinces of the country, whereas the previous week 134,600 people were inoculated in 30 provinces, according to figures provided by UNICEF, which coordinates the rollout of COVID-19 shots distributed across the world by the World Health Organization (WHO) vaccine programme Covax.