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COLUMBIA - While the COVID-19 vaccination rollout promises a new beginning, many questions remain among the refugee community in mid-Missouri.
âIf you get vaccinated, ⦠how many do you have to take so that you can be 100% [immune]?â said Mahinga Tubirori, owner of the African Market on Old Highway 63.
âI want to know about my kids. I have four kids, so I donât know when theyâll get [vaccinated], how theyâre going to do it,â said Soethu Hlamyo, manager and founder of Shwe Market International Foods on Vandiver Drive.
Tubirori and Hlamyo both came to the U.S. from over a decade ago and both are entrepreneurs who started their own businesses from scratch. Tubirori came from the Democratic Republic of Congo where economic instability is widespread, and Hlamyo came from Myanmar, where military dictatorship has been a problem for many decades.
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