Africa has plenty of covid doses, but it lags in jabs

IT IS LITTLECOVAXCDC over a year since the first doses of life-saving vaccines were delivered to Africa under the Covid-19 vaccines Global Access Facility (), a scheme aimed at helping poorer countries get inoculated. Yet what should have been a celebration of the region’s fastest-ever vaccine rollout—with 400m doses jabbed into waiting arms—was instead marred by disappointment at how much more could have been achieved.As of March 15th, no less than 57% of the world’s population has been fully vaccinated against covid. Yet in Africa that share falls to 13%, according to Africa , the continent’s main public-health body. A year ago many African countries rightly complained that they had been pushed to the back of the queue as richer countries bought up most of the world’s vaccines and producing countries banned exports.