KEY POINTS Fully vaccinated people are still getting infected with Covid, though to a much lesser extent than unvaccinated people. No Covid vaccine is 100% effective but immunization greatly reduces the risk of hospitalization and death. Variants have posed a challenge to the effectiveness of Covid vaccines but whether booster shots will be needed is […]
Tanzania’s health ministry says it has no plans in place to accept COVID-19 vaccines, just days after the president of the country of 60 million people expressed doubt about the vaccines without offering evidence. Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima told a press conference in the capital, Dodoma, on Monday that “the ministry has no plans to receive […]
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. Some fear that’s proven to be deadlier than anyone knows. With part of the country still held by the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab extremist group, it is places like Somalia that will be last […]
