Guinea-Conakry is the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to have administered anti-Covid vaccines. It is currently only an experimental phase. And ministers were among the volunteers to receive the vaccine. Russian Sputnik V.
“We have ordered 2 million doses (from Russia) to be able to vaccinate vulnerable people“Says Dr Sakoba Keita, director of the National Health Security Agency,”and we have also placed orders in the People’s Republic of China, all to show the government’s willingness to go on the offensive to use this latest strategy which served us well during the Ebola epidemic.“.
So far only 60 volunteers have been vaccinated. The government has not given an official date for the launch of its campaign. This West African country has declared more than 13,000 cases of contamination and 80 deaths.
Apart from Russia, Sputnik V began to be used in Belarus and Argentina. Algeria is due to start its first vaccinations this month.
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