Afghanistan hit by vaccine delay amid deadly virus surge

An Afghan doctor checks a patient at the Afghan-Japan Communicable Disease Hospital in Kabul (AP)

Afghanistan is battling a brutal surge in Covid-19 infections after health officials were told by the World Health Organisation (WHO) that the three million doses the country expected to receive by April will not be delivered until August.

Health ministry spokesman Ghulam Dastigir Nazari said the country is in the middle of a crisis, and expressed deep frustration at the global vaccine distribution that has left poor countries scrambling to find supplies for their people.