Effort: In an effort to get people vaccinated against Covid-19, Kenya’s health workers go door to door for people who live far from health facilities. The more benign Omnicron variant has also made people complacent. Photo: Briaqn Ongoro/AFP
Despite an oversupply of Covid-19 vaccines, 900 million Africans still need to be vaccinated. The continent’s average vaccination coverage is just 19%.
The situation is not only caused by vaccination complacency; it can be attributed to limited operational capacity, historic vaccine procurement backlogs and competing crises in many African countries.
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