Public messaging

The government must review its Covid-19 communications strategy.

It was a moment of relief as people aged 65 and above were escorted by their family members to vaccination centres on Monday for their second dose of the Covishield/AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. The vulnerable age group has waited five months with fear and uncertainties about whether the government can procure or receive the vaccines under a grant. The lifesaving doses have finally reached their arms, but only after Bhutan delivered 230,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine under a reciprocity condition and an additional 1.6 million AstraZeneca doses donated by Japan through the vaccine sharing scheme COVAX.