Crews on cargo ships are receiving Covid-19 shots world-wide, preventing more supply-chain disruptions and allowing them to finally disembark
TORONTO—Health workers and humanitarian groups at more than 200 ports around the world are making a push to vaccinate thousands of mariners, a population of essential workers that has been largely neglected in the fight against Covid-19.
Many of the thousands of global mariners that are unvaccinated have been unable to disembark from their ships and , not seeing their families or standing on land for several months. In addition, infections at ports or on ships have disrupted global shipping at a time when bottlenecks are already slowing the world’s economic recovery from Covid-19.
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