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Lack of COVID-19 shots puts Africa far behind in global vaccination effort

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CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) - In the global race to vaccinate people against COVID-19, Africa is tragically at the back of the pack.In fact, it has barely gotten out of the starting blocks.In South Africa, which has the continent’s most robust economy and its biggest coronavirus caseload, just 0.8% of the population is fully vaccinated, according to a worldwide tracker kept by Johns Hopkins University.

And hundreds of thousands of the country's health workers, many of whom come face-to-face with the virus every day, are still waiting for their shots.RELATED: US unveils global COVID-19 vaccine sharing plan for unused dosesIn Nigeria, Africa's biggest country with more than 200 million people, only 0.1% are fully protected.

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