20 February 2021, 11:20 AM
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Image: Reuters[File Image] Hundreds of doctors and nurses from both the private and public sectors flocked to the hospital after receiving notifications to go to the facility for their jabs over the weekend.
Somali cattle herder Omar Hussein isn’t joining the global scramble for a COVID-19 vaccine; he’s not sure the jab will even reach his besieged town in southwestern Somalia. The 28-year-old, who has spent much of his life living in a volatile region infiltrated by al Qaeda-linked insurgents, has bigger problems on his mind.
“I know COVID-19 is a killer, everyone knows that. It killed many in Western countries, but not here thanks to God,” the father of three told the