Why Africa is perilously far behind on coronavirus vaccination
Even as the spread of the highly transmissible delta variant drags out the coronavirus pandemic, the prospect of mass vaccination offers a path to relative safety in much of the world. But in most of Africa, a continent left in the dust of the global vaccine scramble, that hope remains out of reach.
© Leo Correa/AP Waiting to receive Johnson & Johnson’s one-dose coronavirus vaccine in Dakar, Senegal, on July 28, 2021. (Leo Correa/AP)
In recent weeks, Africa has seen its worst spike yet in recorded cases, in an overwhelmingly unvaccinated population. New cases of infection on the continent as a whole have dipped from an all-time peak in mid-July. Removing data from South Africa, though, “reveals a uniquely steep and unbroken nine-week surge” across the continent, the World Health Organization said last week.
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