Africa fails to step up Covid fight even with more vaccines
People queue to receive Covid vaccination in Nairobi. Low uptake of vaccines is a challenge on the continent amid reports of a new coronavirus variant. FILE PHOTO | COURTESY
With a large proportion of Africans still unvaccinated, experts are concerned that Covid-19 vaccine supply on the continent is fast outpacing the uptake.
As of Thursday, data from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (AfricaCDC) showed that only 6.6 per cent of Africans have so far been fully vaccinated against Covid-19, with 55 per cent of the 403 million doses available administered.
