'The first vaccine that comes along that has authorisation, I will take it.’
Many countries are relying on temperature checks to limit the spread of Covid as they have no vaccines
Despite accounting for 16% of people worldwide, Africa has delivered just 1% of the total number of coronavirus jabs. Those last in line on the continent include Chad, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Eritrea and Tanzania. At the small hospital where Dr Oumaima Djarma, 33, works in Chad’s capital N’Djamena, there are no debates over which coronavirus vaccine is the best.
She added: ‘Everyone dies from this disease, rich or poor. Everyone must have the opportunity, the chance to be vaccinated, especially those who are most exposed.’ In Haiti, not a single vaccine has been administered to the more than 11 million people who live in the most impoverished country of the Western hemisphere.
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