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South Africa Misses Covax Deadline to Secure Vaccines
- The deposit is set to paid by a charitable organization
- Government needs to guarantee that the rest will be paid
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South Africa, the country hardest hit in Africa by the coronavirus, missed a Dec. 15 deadline to make a deposit to secure vaccines to fight the pathogen, and hasn’t arranged a guarantee to make the full payment.