World’s Most Vaccinated Nation Reports The World's Biggest Covid Surge For The Past Week

Coronavirus infections have rapidly spread in Seychelles. (Our World in Data)  

Reuters: WHO reviewing Seychelles COVID-19 data after fully vaccinated people test positive 

NAIROBI (Reuters) - The World Health Organization said on Tuesday it was reviewing coronavirus data from Seychelles after the health ministry said more than a third of people who tested positive for COVID-19 in the past week had been fully vaccinated. 

Both the ministry and the WHO stressed that the majority of those who tested positive had not been vaccinated or had only received one dose, that no one who had died had been fully vaccinated and that nearly all of those needing treatment for severe or critical cases were unvaccinated. 

But the WHO said it was closely following the situation in the Indian Ocean nation, which has a population of less than 100,000 and daily cases numbers in the low hundreds. 

"Our teams continue to review the data, assess progress and understand the trends," a spokeswoman said by email. 

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Update #1: Island paradise with highest vaccination rate reports world’s biggest COVID surge (Yahoo News)  

Update #2: World's Most Vaccinated Nation Sees Active COVID Cases Double In Under A Week (Zero Hedge)  

WNU Editor: The government of the Seychelles is saying that this surge is happening among the young who have not been vaccinated .... COVID outbreak in world’s most vaccinated country ‘mostly among people who haven’t had jab’ (Yahoo News). 

But the bigger concern is the vaccine that was used to inoculate the people. Apparently the vaccine is from China where doubts on its effectiveness has been voiced elsewhere .... World’s most vaccinated nation sees COVID-19 resurgence, raising questions over Chinese vaccine (The Week). More here .... Are Vaccines Working in the Seychelles? (Bloomberg). 

 What's my take on this surge (and worry). 

The Seychelles receives everyday many visitors from India. Is one of the Indian variants causing this explosion of new cases? And does this mean the Chinese vaccine is not effective?