'Until Everyone Is Safe, No One Is Safe': Africa Awaits The COVID-19 Vaccine
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient and former president of Liberia, says much of Africa may be left out until 2022. "We don't have the resources. It's as simple as that," she says.
by Steve Inskeep
Jan 22, 2021
3 minutes
As slow as the rollout of COVID-19 vaccines has been in the United States, some estimates say billions of people around the world won't be vaccinated for COVID-19 until 2022 or 2023.
Bloomberg has been publishing a map which shows the level of vaccine distribution in different countries and virtually the entire continent of Africa — more than 50 different nations — is blank.
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a and former president of Liberia, says much of Africa
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