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In Somalia, COVID-19 vaccines are distant as virus spreads – Washington Post

As richer countries race to distribute COVID-19 vaccines, Somalia remains the rare place where much of the population hasn’t taken the coronavirus seriously

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It is places like Somalia, the Horn of Africa nation torn apart by three decades of conflict, that will be last to see COVID-19 vaccines in any significant quantity. With part of the country still held by the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group, the risk of the virus becoming endemic in some hard-to-reach areas is strong a fear for parts of Africa amid the slow arrival of vaccines.
There is no real or practical investigation into the matter, said Hirabeh, who is also the director of the Martini…

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