Funding, climate and fear trouble Africa’s Covid vaccine plans – Modern Ghana

The struggle to get Covid vaccine to the world’s population has often been likened to a race — in which case, Africa finds itself hobbled by an array of financial, technical and cultural problems.
Of these, funding is predictably Hurdle No. 1 for Africa, home to some of the world’s poorest countries.
The Africa director of the World Health Organization (WHO), Matshidiso Moeti, last week identified the goal of vaccinating three percent of Africans by March 2021 and 20 percent by the end of next…

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