(ANSA) - ROME, APRIL 12 - The peaceful Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, nestled between India and China and close to Nepal, has done better than (almost) everyone with vaccinations, even beating Israel, the United States and Bahrain, immunizing the 93% of its adult population, 62% of the total of 800,000, in just 16 days.
The vaccination campaign began on March 27 - international various media, including Daily Sabah, reveal - and was immediately favored not only by the small population and its relative isolation from neighboring countries, but also by a capillary of volunteers, called 'desuups' and by an organized freddoben chain.
Thanks to these two factors, Bhuatn also allowed itself to wait until March 27 to indulge the auspices of Buddhist astrology, although the first batch of 150,000 doses of AstraZeneca produced in neighboring India were already delivered at the end of January.
The first dose was in fact administered to a woman born in the Year of the Monkey to the accompaniment of choirs of monks.
Bhutan has been beaten, in absolute terms, only by Seychelles, which has already vaccinated 66% of its population of only 100,000 inhabitants.
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