Africa's hurdles toward a COVID vaccine : vimarsana.com

Africa's hurdles toward a COVID vaccine
dw.com
12/11/2020
Lucia Schulten
Coronavirus vaccines are now being administered in Europe, while Africa hopes to start by mid-2021. Until then, the continent of 54 countries will need to put the necessary logistics, such as refrigeration, in place.
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African countries will likely need to contend with a lack of the vaccine for their residents
On December 8, 2020, the United Kingdom became the first country to begin vaccinating its citizens with the new BioNTech-Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. Canada and Bahrain have also greenlighted it.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) will meet on December 29 and is expected to approve the vaccine. But European Union countries are already putting modalities in place to receive and distribute the vaccine.

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