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Vaccine uptake, the latest case surges, and related news from Central Asia and the South Caucasus. Updated every weekday.

The country already leads in vaccination rates in the South Caucasus. Many expect the new rules to drive a black market for fake vaccination passports.

Online classes at Georgia’s universities are vulnerable to students bending the rules. Professors are struggling to contain the problem.

Kazakhs unable to travel abroad are discovering their country is full of nice places to vacation. But what’s good for the local economy is not always good for nature.

Iranians have been flooding into Armenia to get COVID vaccines, causing Tehran to complain and Yerevan to tighten the rules.

A few months ago, the thought of taking a Chinese COVID vaccine was unthinkable to Georgians. Now it’s the norm.

Conspiracy theories have fueled the low update for vaccination.

Vaccine uptake, the latest case surges, and related news from Central Asia and the South Caucasus.

Recent growth indicators seem impressive only compared to the disaster that was 2020.

Cases are rising rapidly and vaccines – for those who want them – are hard to find.

During lockdown, delivery drivers are risking their lives to escape debt.

China has delivered 300,000 doses of vaccine, but will the public want them?

Vaccine hesitancy in Uzbekistan is high, bred by social media conspiracies that seem credible in a country without accountable authorities.

Vaccine uptake, the latest case surges, and related news from Central Asia and the South Caucasus.

The government appears to be taking active measures to cover up the new outbreak.

After some early success in fighting COVID, Georgia let down its guard. Then I did, too.

Critics are concerned over potential privacy issues.

Vaccine uptake, the latest case surges, and related news from Central Asia and the South Caucasus.

Our Kazakhstan correspondent describes the waiting, the bureaucracy, and the anticlimax of getting his Sputnik V jab in Almaty.

The health minister then drank the concoction at a press conference.

Laborers in the extractive industries are proving more adept at fighting their corner.

The president's family has a monopoly on tickets, cashing in on a profound desperation.

Although Turkmenistan is rarely mentioned as a prospective member of the Moscow-led EAEU trading bloc, that notion is quite obviously on the Kremlin’s mind. Our weekly briefing.

Only a tiny fraction of the population has got the jab so far.

A government stimulus has helped the moneyed invest and driven up property prices.