A health worker prepares a dose of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine at the Orange Farm Clinic near Johannesburg. Photo / APIn the global race to vaccinate people against Covid-19, Africa is tragically at the back of the pack. In South Africa, which has the continent's most robust economy and its biggest coronavirus caseload, just 0.8 per cent of the population is fully vaccinated, according to a worldwide tracker kept by Johns Hopkins University. Kenyans line up to receive a dose of the AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine. An elderly woman leaves as others wait to receive the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine, at a clinic at Orange Farm, near Johannesburg.

Source: New Zealand Herald June 09, 2021 06:22 UTC