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Fake news hampers Ivory Coast’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout By Chad Williams Share CAPE TOWN - The spread of misinformation around Covid-19 and vaccines continues to hamper Ivory Coast’s vaccine rollout for the virus as well as its overall response to the pandemic now in its second year. The West African country, which has reported over 46,000 Covid-19 infections and 292 deaths, is battling vaccine hesitation amongst the broader public being fed with fake news. While this problem is not ...

Covid-19: How fake news is hampering Ivory Coast’s vaccination efforts Issued on: 11/05/2021 - 16:01 A shipment of Covid-19 vaccines distributed by the COVAX Facility arrives in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, February 25, 2021. © Diomande Ble Blonde, AP Text by: Sam BRADPIECE 5 min Disinformation online has led to a sluggish vaccine roll-out in Ivory Coast. Ivorian and international health authori...

The vaccination push in Ivory Coast is plagued by a pervasive hesitancy.

Ivory Coast is falling behind its vaccination schedule. Health workers fear thousands of shots could expire. Sam Bradpiece, Danielle Paquette © Diomande Ble Blonde/AP Culture Minister Raymonde Goudou Coffie receives a shot of the AstraZeneca vaccine in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, on March 1. ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast — Health leaders in Ivory Coast were thrilled when the first half-million coronavirus vaccines arrived in late February. But that excitement cooled to concern as the We...