Financial challenges fuel delays in Africa's COVID-19 vaccine rollout
A blockage on supplies and financial challenges are delaying Africa’s rollout of COVID-19 vaccines and risk curtailing plans to significantly expand the continent’s rollout later this year. Vaccine deliveries to Africa through the COVAX facility ground to a near halt in May as the Serum Institute of India diverted doses for domestic use. Between February and May the continent received just about a quarter – 18.2 million – of the 66 million expected doses through COVAX. “As people living in richer countries hit the reset button this summer and their lives start to look normal, in Afr...
Source: africabusinesscommunities.com
