JUNE 2 1 TAKING VACCINES TO THE COUNTRYSIDE
workers have gone
to extreme lengths to
reach remote commu-
nities. From Srinagar,
it took Ahmed and a
half dozen colleagues
three hours driving
and then walking to
reach this isolated
spot. They spent
four hours searching
for people and vacci-
nated more than 10.
AP PHOTOWith a cooler of
COVID-19 vaccines in
hand, Nazir Ahmed
looks for shepherds
and nomadic herders
in the meadows of
Tosamaidan, south-
west of Srinagar in
the Indian territory
of Jammu and Kash-
mir. In the race to
vaccinate against
the SARS-CoV-2
virus, health-care