“People are eagerly waiting for vaccines..... they ask me constantly when they will arrive, when they can get it, when it will be their turn. All the time.”

In Darchula District on the edge of Nepal’s far-western border with India, health staff Birma Devi Kunwar, who has been responsible for carrying life-saving vaccines to the remote Pipalchauri Health Post for years, now treads the same path with COVID-19 vaccines.