UK travel curbs hurt vaccine drive: Africa CDC

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A passenger wearing a face mask arrives at Heathrow airport, west London. PHOTO | DANIEL LEAL-OLIVAS | AFP

What you need to know:

  • For most of the world, and all of Africa, Britain will not recognise locally-administered vaccines -- even if the jabs came from Britain.
  • Britain has been an active donor of coronavirus vaccines to Africa, sending more than five million shots to Africa, according to UN data.
  • The UK approach creates a stigma around locally administered vaccines and "will lead to eventually harming efforts of what we are doing in Africa", official says.