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  • Updated: September 15, 2022

COVID-19 Still A Threat Due To Low Vaccination — CDC

COVID-19 Still A Threat Due To Low Vaccination  — CDC

The COVID-19 pandemic is still a threat in Africa, given low vaccination rates, the acting director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said on Thursday.

Ahmed Ogwell Ouma said; “The virus is still circulating and with the low rates of vaccination, the pandemic is still very much with us here on the continent.”

The Africa CDC director said just more than 22 per cent of Africa’s population was fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and that his agency would continue pushing to raise that number.

Ouma said the Africa CDC was focusing on getting as many people on the continent as possible fully vaccinated, not on procuring new vaccines targeting specific variants like Omicron.

African countries struggled to secure early supplies of COVID vaccines as rich nations hoarded doses, and more recently hesitancy and logistics problems have made it difficult to get shots into arms.

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