Ramya Vijaya
Less than 2% vaccinated even as COVID-19 cases cross 7.1 million in Africa
Despite the recently increased supply, the continent suffers a severe shortage of vaccines due to stockpiling by wealthier countries and the credit rating agencies’ practice of disproportionately downgrading developing countries during the pandemic
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