U.S. locks down embassy in Afghanistan amid COVID-19 surge
The Hindu
It also issued a call for the Biden administration to require all staffers at all US embassies and consulates abroad to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as a condition of their employment.
The US Embassy in Afghanistan has ordered a near-complete lockdown because of a massive spike in coronavirus cases among employees. Already on uncertain footing due to the imminent withdrawal of American forces from the country, the embassy in Kabul Thursday, June 17, 2021, ordered remaining staffers into virtual isolation to, which has already killed at least one person, sent 114 into quarantine and forced several people to be medically evacuated. The embassy said in a notice to employees that almost all group activities, including work meetings and recreational gatherings, are banned because intensive care units at military medical facilities in Afghanistan are at full capacity and the number of cases has forced it to establish temporary COVID-19 wards to care for patients requiring oxygen.
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