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So far, only three of the 54 African countries have been able to inoculate even one percent of their citizens (Photo: UNICEF Ethiopia)
Brussels, Today, 07:02 Nobody is safe until everybody is safe, EU leaders have repeated since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic. Vaccine[s] will be our universal, common good, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said one year ago.
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Which countries still have no vaccines?
By: DW
Frankfurt: More than 600 million vaccinations have taken place worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). But while close to 100 per cent of Gibraltar s population, for instance, have already been vaccinated, countries like Nicaragua are still waiting to receive their first doses of vaccine.
WHO Secretary-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus referred to the situation on Tuesday as a farce. He called for global production to be cranked up and vaccines to be fairly distributed to tackle the acute phase of the pandemic.
On the global vaccination map, there is still a whole swath of African countries awaiting supplies from Libya to Madagascar. Those countries do not even feature in the WHO s vaccination statistics. The picture is similar in Central Asia, as well as in individual countries such as North Korea, Cuba, and Bosnia and Herzegovina.
COVID: Which countries still have no vaccines?
The coronavirus vaccine campaign in Gibraltar is already over and yet it hasn t even started in many other countries. What’s the reason for that and could the situation be about to change?
Kenya has received some delivieries of vaccine, but Africa is largely undersupplied
More than 600 million vaccinations have taken place worldwide, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). But while close to 100% of Gibraltar s population, for instance, have already been vaccinated, countries like Nicaragua are still waiting to receive their first doses of vaccine. WHO Secretary-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus referred to the situation on Tuesday as a farce. He called for global production to be cranked up and vaccines to be fairly distributed to tackle the acute phase of the pandemic.