Afghanistan is battling a brutal surge in Covid-19 infections as health officials plead for vaccines, only to be told by the World Health Organisation that the three million doses the country expected to receive by April won’t be delivered until August.

“We are in the middle of a crisis,” Health Ministry spokesman Ghulam Dastigir Nazari said this week, expressing deep frustration at the global vaccine distribution that has left poor countries scrambling to find supplies for their people.

Nazari has knocked on the door of several embassies, and so far, “I’ve gotten diplomatic answers” but no vaccine doses, he said.

“Honestly speaking, I lost my faith in Covax,” Nazari said.

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