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Yet another fashionable slogan means nothing when it’s needed most.

The number of flights is still highly limited for the time being, however.

The death of a nurse, hasty European policy decisions and the Georgian church’s indifference all have contributed to a rocky rollout for the vaccination campaign.

The region appears wholly unprepared for the latest rise in cases.

Only 0.25 percent of the population aged over 15 have had the first injection.

It can take four days to get to the front of the line at this bitterly cold pass almost two miles high.

Kazakh officials say the Chinese are breaking their legal commitments.

Hopes are being pinned on the Sino-Uzbek vaccine ZF-UZ-VAC 2001.

Restrictions on movement do not appear intended to stem the spread of COVID-19.

The industry has been crippled. And with meager government aid, some have threatened civil disobedience.

Authorities have not made any attempt to explain the abnormally high number of deaths last year.

Kazakhstan is struggling to drum up vaccine interest. Its leaders could help by getting the jab.

New calculations suggest Uzbekistan is the world leader in misleading COVID mortality statistics.

Dushanbe is desperate to resume flights to Russian cities.

The coronavirus inoculation program is the first in the Caucasus and Central Asia, starting out with Chinese vaccines but incorporating Russian and Western ones at later stages.

More than 40 percent of Georgians say they don’t want to get the jab, which could complicate public health efforts when the vaccines finally arrive.

Analysts believe the country may be benefiting from herd immunity after devastation last year.

Imports from Central Asia fell far more than the global average.

Spraying chlorine, new infrastructure on the Afghan border, and claims of a naturally occurring COVID vaccine. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan bulletin.

Surabaldiyeva says "several thousand" people may have died.

Uzbekistan, Tajikistan are taking triumphalist stances on coronavirus.

The COVID-19 vaccination experiences of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia show that if you’re a small and poor country, you need to rely on powerful friends.

To each their own annus horribilis.

Electricity exports; crowd control outside food shops; and despite denials, COVID strikes. This and more in our weekly Turkmenistan briefing.

Food prices have jumped this year and there are few jobs, but out-of-work migrants can’t get to where they are desperately needed.