Cote d'Ivoire: With Covid Vaccine Deliveries to Accra and Abidjan, the Race for Equity Begins

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Will the rollout of vaccines to African countries be a turning point in the pandemic?

On February 24, 600,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Accra, Ghana. Two days later, another 504,000 doses arrived in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. These were the first international deliveries of Covid-19 vaccine through the COVAX facility and, with the first doses administered just days later, the first steps in the largest immunisation campaign in history. Hopefully, these milestones represent a turning point in the world's response to the pandemic.

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