RIGA/SOFIA, Oct 21 (Reuters) – As Latvia goes into lockdown and hospitals in Bulgaria and Romania buckle under a COVID-19 surge while Poland sells surplus vaccine doses, many central and eastern Europeans are torn between defiance and regret over not getting inoculated.
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Reuters: Regret and defiance in Europe’s vaccine-shy east as COVID-19 rages
Beds and medical equipment are seen in the lobby of the Pauls Stradins Clinical University Hospital in Riga, Latvia, on Oct. 21, 2021, the day the new one-month-long lockdown starts. - Latvia plunged back into lockdown on Oct. 21, 2021 with non-essential shops closed and cinema, theatres and hairdressers shutting down for a month in a bid to break the world's worst Covid rate. Latvia has seen 1,406 Covid infections per 100,000 inhabitants over the last 14 days, the highest per capita rate in the world as of Oct. 20, according to an AFP calculation.
