Fewer than half a million have received jabs in Sub-Saharan Africa so far
As the rest of the world prepares for a vaccine-driven return to normal over the next few months, at her community health centre in a working-class neighbourhood of Cape Town, Andrea Mendelsohn is dreading the arrival of April and May — that is when the weather will get cooler in the southern hemisphere and bring a surge in coronavirus cases.
Few people in SA — aside from medical staff like Mendelsohn — will be vaccinated by then. Elsewhere on the continent even health workers will not be inoculated, making Africa a large reservoir of the virus that has infected almost 117-million people across the globe and killed more than 2.5-million...
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