Tackling COVID-19 amid vaccine scarcity The Punch
Published 3 June 2021
SIX months after the commencement of the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, Africa has been left behind in the race for doses due to poverty and poor planning caused by decades of bad leadership. The continent, which has largely depended on foreign aid from western countries for decades and imports 95 per cent of its drugs, has been left high and dry as developed nations scamper to meet the domestic vaccine needs of their citizens before shipping doses to Africa and other developing regions.
With many African countries exhausting their doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine, which they received for free through the COVAX facility, they are now unable to administer a second jab due to the ban on exportation of vaccines by India, which is grappling with a COVID-19 crisis on an unimaginable scale. This has undermined the progress in the fight against the pandemic. Experts describe the situation as a
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BRAZZAVILLE, Republic of the Congo – Africa needs at least 20 million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine in the next six weeks to get second doses to all
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