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COVID-19: Emergence of vaccine-resistant variants imminent, AHF warns
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By Chioma Obinna
The largest global AIDS Organisation, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, AHF, has warned that failure to administer COVID-19 vaccines fast enough may lead to new resistant variants of COVID-19 that would not respond to the available vaccines.
The Bureau Chief of AHF Africa, Dr Penninah Lutung who issued the warning during the Vaccinate Our World, VOW, virtual press briefing tagged: “Interrupting the Acute Phase of COVID-19” added that if the whole world is not vaccinated, Africa, along with all developing countries, runs the risk of becoming a breeding ground for new variants.
2021-05-19 14:31:12 GMT2021-05-19 22:31:12(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
NAIROBI, May 19 (Xinhua) The fight against COVID-19 in Africa is facing new headwinds amid hoarding of vaccine stockpiles by wealthy nations that has created a supply crunch in the continent, campaigners said Wednesday.
Alice Kayongo, regional policy and advocacy manager at AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), decried vaccine nationalism saying it has undermined efforts to contain the pandemic in the continent. The hoarding of COVID-19 vaccine by the developed world has posed significant threats in Africa where new variants have been reported and could worsen community-based infections, Kayongo said at a virtual forum on vaccine nationalism organized by AHF.