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The Mo Ibrahim Foundation says that Africa’s access to COVID-19 vaccine is significantly lower than what COVAX had promised, noting that the situation places the continent at risk of becoming a perfect incubator for variants of the virus.
The Foundation warned that Africa is one of the most unprotected and vulnerable regions when it comes to the COVID-19 global pandemic, noting that it would be a fatal mistake to consider that the viral infection there is less severe, and thus conclude that Africa could wait.
It said that if vaccine supply to Africa is not immediately upscaled, the continent’s frontline health workers are likely to be overwhelmed.