Only a quarter of health workers in Africa are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the World Health Organization said.
The majority of Africa's health workers are still missing out on vaccines and remain dangerously exposed to severe Covid-19 infection, the WHO warnedOnly a quarter of health workers in Africa are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the World Health Organization said on Thursday warning that the majority of the continent's frontline medical workforce were dangerously exposed.
"The majority of Africa's health workers are still missing out on vaccines and remain dangerously exposed to severe COVID-19 infection," WHO's Africa director Matshidiso Moeti said after revealing just 27 percent of health workers on the continent were jabbed. Only one country in Africa had the necessary number of health workers - 10.9 per 1,000 population - while 16 countries had fewer than one per 1,000, according to the WHO.
The WHO intervention came as scientists in South Africa revealed that they had detected a new COVID-19 variant with"a very high number of mutations", blamed for an"exponential" surge in infections there.
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