In the global race to vaccinate people against COVID-19, Africa is tragically at the back of the packCAPE TOWN, South Africa -- In 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% of the population is fully vaccinated, according to a worldwide tracker kept by Johns Hopkins University. And there are at least five other countries in Africa where not one dose has been put into an arm, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The shortfall is estimated at 700 million doses. Poorer countries had warned as far back as last year of this impending vaccine inequality, fearful that rich nations would hoard doses.

Source: ABC News June 09, 2021 06:31 UTC