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Africa Faces COVID-19 Vaccine Challenges

NPR

Published May 11, 2021 at 12:06 PM CDT

In Africa, many countries have already exhausted their initial supplies or are still waiting to get vaccines.

Here & Now‘s Tonya Mosley gets the latest from NPR global health correspondent Nurith Aizenman.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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