Vaccine deserts: The poor nations trailing in the fight against Covid-19

Covid-19 vaccine doses

Worldwide, wealthy nations have administered about half of the total Covid-19 vaccine doses. PHOTO | FILE

At a private hospital in Burundi's capital, emergency specialist Emmanuel Kubwayo is worried for the first time since the coronavirus started spreading around the world last year.

Kubwayo initially shared the government's view that the small central African country did not need Covid-19 vaccines because it had so few cases. But as deaths and infections surge across Africa, he has changed his mind.