{"id":1841,"date":"2021-07-15T15:27:42","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T15:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news25.org\/?p=1841"},"modified":"2021-07-15T15:27:42","modified_gmt":"2021-07-15T15:27:42","slug":"vaccine-deliveries-rising-as-delta-virus-variant-slams-asia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.news25.org\/vaccine-deliveries-rising-as-delta-virus-variant-slams-asia\/","title":{"rendered":"Vaccine deliveries rising as delta virus variant slams Asia"},"content":{"rendered":"

As many Asian countries battle their worst surge of COVID-19 infections, the slow flow of vaccine doses from around the world is finally picking up speed, giving hope that inoculation rates can increase and help blunt the effect of the rapidly spreading delta variant.<\/p>\n

With many vaccine pledges still unfulfilled and rates of infection spiking across multiple countries, however, experts say more needs to be done to help nations struggling with the overflow of patients and shortages of oxygen and other critical supplies.<\/p>\n

Some 1.5 million doses of the Moderna vaccine arrived Thursday afternoon in Indonesia, which has become a dominant hot spot with record high infections and deaths.<\/p>\n

The U.S. shipment follows 3 million other American doses that arrived Sunday, and 11.7 million doses of AstraZeneca that have come in batches since March through the U.N.-backed COVAX mechanism, the last earlier this week.<\/p>\n