Africa protests EU’s vaccine apartheid in Green Pass policy
Ugandans wait in line for the second dose of Covid-19 vaccination at Kololo Independence ground. Africa, with only 1.07 percent of its population fully vaccinated, is in the throes of an “extremely aggressive” third surge of infections. PHOTO | MORGAN MBABAZI | NMG
The African Union is deeply upset about an apparent discriminatory policy by the European Union in travel bans for people vaccinated with the World Health Organisation-backed AstraZeneca vaccine produced in India.
Further, with a paltry one percent of Africa’s population vaccinated as the delta strain of the Covid-19 sweeps across the continent leaving a trail of death and suffering, the AU is citing bias in the global distribution of the available doses.
