India’s COVID battle causes vaccine worries in Africa
Al Jazeera
Africa ‘watching in horror’ as India’s vicious second COVID wave forces it to halt the export of vaccines.
Africa is watching aghast as India struggles with coronavirus, fearing a long-running shortfall in the Indian-made vaccines that it needs to help protect its people. Often dubbed the “pharmacy of the world”, India is one of the biggest suppliers of the AstraZeneca vaccine under the COVAX programme to help immunisation in poorer countries. But India has been hammered by an explosive growth in infections – accelerated, say scientists, by a new variant.
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