Photos: Taking the Covid-19 vaccine to the world's remote regions

Around the world, it is taking extra effort and ingenuity to ensure the vaccine gets to remote locations. That means shipping it by boat to islands, by snowmobile to Alaska villages and via complex waterways through the Amazon in Brazil. Although the vaccination rollout has been choppy in much of the world and some places are still waiting for their first doses, there’s an urgent push to inoculate people in hard-to-reach places that may not have had Covid-19 outbreaks but also may not be well equipped to deal with them if they do.

Published on: Apr 09, 2021 4:36 PM IST

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Health workers accompanying elderly villagers in a boat as they cross the river Brahmaputra to reach a Covid-19 vaccination center at Bahakajari village in Assam on March 23. Workers recently trekked to this tiny village to start vaccinating its nearly 9,000 residents. The vaccines were first sent to the nearest town, Morigaon, before they were driven the final leg by car. (Anupam Nath / AP)

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Nurse Sharon Daley carries a cooler of Covid-19 vaccinations as she and her staff begin a journey to inoculate island residents on March 19 in Northeast Harbor, Maine. In Maine, there was relief when the century-old Seacoast Mission took on the task of getting the vaccine to the islands. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP)

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Village Service Chief Dr. Elizabeth Roll holds a Covid-19 vaccine in Napakiak, Alaska in December 2020. In the rough and roadless terrain of southwestern Alaska, the Yukon-Kuskokwim Health Corp. chartered planes and used snowmobiles last year winter to deliver the vaccine to nearly four dozen villages spread out over an area the size of Oregon. (Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation via AP)

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Nurses Kathy Cheney (2L), and Maureen Giffen huddle on a wet and windy ride aboard a lobster boat on the way to set up a Covid-19 vaccination clinic on March 19 on Great Cranberry Island, Maine. For islanders, getting to the mainland in the best of circumstances would’ve meant a daylong trip to get the vaccine. Rough weather can delay ferries and mailboats, leaving residents stuck for days. And some are too infirm to travel. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP)

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Elderly women wait to register for a Covid-19 vaccine in Bahakajari village in Assam on March 23. People from a nearby island were brought to the health center by boat, and both men and women lined up to get vaccinated. By the end of the day, 67 had received a shot, with officials aiming to vaccinate 800 more within the next three days. (Anupam Nath/AP)

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Nurses Sharon Daley (L), and Maureen Giffen fill syringes with the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine in a makeshift clinic in the kitchen of a community center on March 19 on Great Cranberry Island, Maine. Just like in other parts of the world, including the US, health care workers had to overcome the challenge of persuading some people that it was safe and important to get the shot, AP reported. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP)

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Luis Alves Nogueira, 74, receives a dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine from a healthcare worker, in the Pupuri community along the Purus River, in Amazonas state, Brazil on February 12. In Brazil, remote Amazon communities presented a challenge that meant traveling for hours on small planes and boats. (Edmar Barros/AP)

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Health workers Diego Feitosa Ferreira, 28, (R), and Clemilton Lopes de Oliveira, 41, leave a home after a resident denied to be vaccinated against the new coronavirus, in the Capacini community, along the Purus river in Amazonas state, Brazil on February 12. Like many remote locales, getting the vaccine to the villages was important because most jungle communities have only basic medical facilities that aren't equipped to treat severe Covid-19 cases. (Edmar Barros/AP)

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Island residents, Lindsay Eysnogle, (L), her daughter, Marina Pickering and Kaitlyn Miller, (C), dance with Mitchell McCormick to celebrate their Covid-19 vaccinations on March 19 on Islesford, Maine. Islanders are used to a certain degree of isolation, but this winter was particularly tough due to restrictions, Lindsay Eysnogle, who teaches five children on the island ranging from pre-K to second grade, told AP. The vaccine provides hope that islanders can resume something akin to normalcy. (Robert F. Bukaty/AP)