No doses, too many doses, scepticism: all collide to stymie Africa’s vaccine rollout

These are a drop in the ocean of issues facing the continent and the West has a lot to answer for

06 December 2021 - 19:21 By Maggie Fick and Edward McAllister

When a group arrived at the Sekenani health clinic in rural Kenya for their Covid-19 vaccines recently, staff told them there were no doses left and that they should come back soon...

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