Togo: Using Digital Tools to Fight Covid-19 and Protect the Most Vulnerable

Government uses tech to contact trace, send money to the poor during lockdown, and now for vaccination rollout

When, in early April, I met Akuvi Sossah, a 52-year-old mother of four at the local medical centre in a northern suburb in Togo's capital Lomé, she proudly showed me the confirmation code on her mobile phone for her first COVID-19 vaccine shot.

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