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World Coronavirus Dispatch: FPIs fret over virus revival, dump ASEAN stocks

World watches UK's race between vaccine and virus, Six fully-vaccinated people die of Covid-19 in Seychelles, and other pandemic-related news across the globe

World Coronavirus Dispatch
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World Coronavirus Dispatch

Akash Podishetty Hyderabad
Six fully-vaccinated people die of Covid-19 in Seychelles, world's most-vaccinated nation

Seychelles, the country of a little over 98,000 people, had rushed to inoculate most of them in a bid to reopen tourism, the mainstay for its economy. However, infections began climbing in May and there are no signs of subsiding, mainly on account of the highly-contagious delta variant. Recently, the coronavirus has killed six fully-vaccinated people in the country that has inoculated a greater proportion of its people than any other nation. Of those, five had taken Covishield, a version of the AstraZeneca vaccine made in India, and one had