AFRICAN EYE

  By Rawlings Magede In 2019, the World Health Organisation (WHO) listed “vaccine hesitancy” as one of the ten greatest threats to global health. More than one and half years later, the world is fighting against a pandemic that has threatened to wipe up the human race. COVID 19 has claimed the lives of more than two million people globally since its outbreak in 2020.Countries such as India and Brazil are among the countries with the highest casualties. In Africa, statistics of COVID 19 related deaths are sketchy owing to the poorly developed public health infrastructure and testing. What however is undisputable is that the pandemic has claimed the lives of many people. In the absence of an effective health infrastructure, people particularly in rural areas continue to die quietly from the virus. In Africa, the fight against the pandemic has also been weakened by misinformation and religion. Ever since reports of the discovery of the COVID 19 vaccine began to filter in, there was a fl