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Ivory Coast has begun giving shots to inoculate against COVID-19 with vaccines delivered last week by the global COVAX initiative, which was created to ensure that low- and middle-income countries have fair access to doses
The COVAX initiative, however, has been hampered by the severely limited global supply of doses as well as logistical problems that delayed the global distribution of the vaccines. Ivory Coast's Health Minister Eugene Aka Aouele said the first phase of the campaign will target more than 250,000 people. He said the nation aims to vaccinate more than 5.6 million people, or 20 per cent of the population. LISTEN | Scramble for vaccines undermines global efforts to end pandemic: The Early Edition8:01A global conversation over vaccine supplyCOVAX recently made its first deliveries to Ghana and the ...