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COVID-19 vaccine scarcity amid Delta variant The Punch Published 20 July 2021 RISING COVID-19 infections and hospitalisation in Nigeria should sound the alarm bells to all and sundry as the country is being left behind. Global health authorities say the highly transmissible Delta variant is now prevalent in 21 African countries and is surging through unvaccinated populations. Confirming this, the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 has given a red alert to Lagos, Oyo, Rivers, Kaduna, Kano, Plateau, and the Federal Capital Territory about the Delta variant threat in these areas. Yet, these alarms on the deadly and virulent variant are coming amid reports of vaccine shortages in the country. An independent non-profit news organisation, The New Humanitarian, reported that the African continent’s vaccine rollout is crawling, slowed in part by a critical shortage of doses. “Countries are reliant on bilateral deals and the UN-backed COVAX facility, which ai

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