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. Before it’s over, drones, motorcycles, elephants, horses and camels will have been used to deliver it to the world’s far corners, said Robin Nandy, chief of immunization for UNICEF.
Health workers Diego Feitosa Ferreira, 28, right, 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 the Labrea municipality, Amazonas state, Brazil, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. Getting the vaccine to the world’s farthest corners means delivering it by boat to Maine’s islands, traveling by snowmobile to villages in Alaska and navigating complex waterways in Brazil’s Amazon. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)Luis Alves Nogueira, 74, left, receives a dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from a healthcare worker, in the Pupuri community along the Purus River, in the Labrea municipality, Amazonas state, Brazil, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021. Getting the vaccine to the world’s farthest corners means delivering it by boat to Maine’s islands, traveling by snowmobile to villages in Alaska and navigating complex waterways in Brazil’s Amazon. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)Healthcare workers Diego Feitosa Ferreira, 28, right, and Clemilton Lopes de Oliveira, 41, travel on a boat to the Santa Rosa community, Amazonas state, Brazil, Friday, Feb. 12, 2021, to vaccinate residents with the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. Getting the vaccine to the villages was important since most jungle communities have only basic medical facilities that aren’t equipped to treat severe COVID-19 cases. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)Nurse Sharon Daley, administers a COVID-19 vaccination to Hollie Stanley in a makeshift clinic in the kitchen of a community center, Friday, March 19, 2021, on Great Cranberry Island, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)John Zavodny, president of the Maine Seacoast Mission, left, registers residents for COVID-19 vaccinations in a library on the island of Islesford, Maine, Friday, March 19, 2021. “Life on the islands is remote. And it’s isolated. And I think that isolation is both the attraction but the heart of the challenge,” said Zavodny said. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)Health workers accompany elderly villagers in a boat as they cross the river Brahmaputra to reach a vaccination center for COVID-19 at Bahakajari village in an interior part of Indian northeastern state of Assam, India, Tuesday, March 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)Nurses Sharon Daley, left, and Maureen Giffen fill syringes with the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine in a makeshift clinic in the kitchen of a community center, Friday, March 19, 2021, on Great Cranberry Island, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)This December 2020 photo provided by Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation, Village Service Chief Dr. Elizabeth Roll holds a COVID-19 vaccine in Napakiak, Alaska. Getting the vaccine to the world’s farthest corners means delivering it by boat to Maine’s islands, traveling by snowmobile to villages in Alaska and navigating complex waterways in Brazil’s Amazon. (Yukon Kuskokwim Health Corporation via AP)Marc Nighman and Jonathan Partin leave the Sunbeam after receiving a COVID-19 vaccination, Friday, March 19, 2021, in Northeast Harbor, Maine. The 74-foot vessel operated by the non-profit Maine Seacoast Mission, seen in the background, has vaccinated hundreds of islanders. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)Elderly women wait to register for a COVID-19 vaccine in Bahakajari village in an interior part of Indian northeastern state of Assam, India, Tuesday, March 23, 2021. In India, workers recently trekked to the tiny village to start vaccinating its nearly 9,000 residents. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)A health worker readies a COVID-19 vaccine as another comforts an elderly woman at a health center in Bahakajari village in an interior part of Indian northeastern state of Assam, India, Tuesday, March 23, 2021. In India, workers recently trekked to the tiny village to start vaccinating its nearly 9,000 residents. (AP Photo/Anupam Nath)Island residents, Lindsay Eysnogle, left, her daughter, Marina Pickering and Kaitlyn Miller, center, do a happy dance with Mitchell McCormick to celebrate their COVID-19 vaccinations, Friday, March 19, 2021, on Islesford, Maine. Getting the vaccine to the world’s farthest corners means delivering it by boat to Maine’s islands, traveling by snowmobile to villages in Alaska and navigating complex waterways in Brazil’s Amazon. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)Nurse Sharon Daley carries a cooler of COVID-19 vaccinations as she and her staff begin a journey to inoculate island residents, Friday, March 19, 2021, in Northeast Harbor, Maine. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)Nurse Sharon Daley administers a COVID-19 vaccination to Oliver Blank, 18, Friday, March 19, 2021, on the island of Islesford, Maine. An exemption has been made to the vaccination age restrictions to allow younger residents on remote islands to receive their shot. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)
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