Lack of vaccines for Africa 'unacceptable': World Bank

Covid-19 vaccination

Zanzibar started its Covid-19 vaccination campaign last week using the Sinovac brand. PHOTO | AFP

By  AFP

What you need to know:

  • With some six million reported cases and around 153,000 deaths among its nearly 1.3 billion people, Africa is still the world's least-affected continent after Oceania, according to an AFP tally.

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