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Nigeria, Kenya (see earlier post) and Rwanda have begun Covid immunisation programmes under the Covax vaccine-sharing scheme, becoming the latest African countries to do so.
Health workers will be among the early beneficiaries of the AstraZeneca vaccination in all three, the BBC reports.
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