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Kenya has started the first phase of its vaccination strategy, made possible by the delivery of just over one million AstraZeneca vaccines. However, one month into the exercise, just over 280,000 people had been vaccinated out of an initial target of 1.25 million by June. Some things have gone well but, explains Catherine Kyobutungi, there have been some big teething problems and there’s a lot of catching up to do. Kenya grapples with two major challenges: access to sufficient doses and vaccine hesitancy.
Equatorial Guinea’s city of Bata was recently rocked by explosions from an army barracks that killed over 100 people and destroyed military buildings as well as people’s homes. Stockpiling ammunition is dangerous – there have been catastrophic explosions at munition sites on all continents over the past four decades. Most can be attributed to poor risk management. Nicolas Florquin explains that there’s no such thing as a zero risk level. Nevertheless, basic measures can be put in place to reduce the chances of a catastrophe.
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A healthcare worker administers an Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to her colleague at Mutuini Hospital in Nairobi. Kenya on March 3, 2021.
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Catherine Kyobutungi, African Population and Health Research Center
Kenya grapples with two major challenges in the vaccination rollout: access to sufficient doses in light of the global shortage; and vaccine hesitancy.
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A lorry trailer carries the coffins of the victims of a munitions explosion in Brazzaville, the Congolese capital, in 2012.
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Nicolas Florquin, Graduate Institute – Institut de hautes études internationales et du développement (IHEID)
Data suggests that Africa as a whole suffers a relatively high rate of casualties at munition sites where there are unplanned explosions.
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