Prognosis

Africa’s Limited Vaccine Supply Eases Path for Virus, WHO Says

  • Pandemic won’t end until Africa nations vaccinated: Africa CDC
  • Less than 8% of people on continent have been fully vaccinated

A resident reads Covid-19 vaccine literature at a vaccination point in Cape Town. 

Photographer: Dwayne Senior/Bloomberg
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New variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, will find an easy path in Africa as long as the continent remains largely unvaccinated, the World Health Organization warned.