The first wave of COVID-19 hit Nepal back in 2020. As in India and elsewhere in the region, the effects of this first wave were relatively mild. The country is now dealing with a much more severe second wave, driven by the delta variant.
Several Global Platform blogs and papers have criticised the failure of some governments to give people at the oldest ages sufficient priority in their COVID-19 vaccination strategies.
This is an update for a short paper posted by the Global Platform on 1 March 2021.
On 7 June 2021 India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that from 21 June COVID-19 vaccination would be made free for people aged 45 and under.
In India as in many other low and middle-income countries (LMICs), the Covid-19 pandemic has brought into sharp focus the lack of a comprehensive publicly available civil registration data system.
Pakistan is the sixth most populous country in the world and is projected to be the third most populous by 2050. Its population aged 60 and over was 14.9 million in 2020 and is projected to reach 40.6 million by 2050 (UN Population Division, 2021).
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