Why Africa could face vaccine-resistant Covid

Covid-19 patient.

Health workers attend to a Covid-19 patient at an isolation ward in Kenya's capital Nairobi on April 17, 2020. PHOTO | FILE | NMG

Africa risks having a Covid-19 strain resistant to all the vaccines available as the virus continues mutating amid a slow vaccination drive.

According to the Africa CDC, new variants of the SARS-CoV-2 are rapidly spreading across continents and multiple variants are emerging in Africa, some deadlier, as the continent slips into a third wave.