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African countries are starting mass Covid inoculation drives using vaccines supplied through a scheme set up to share doses fairly with poorer nations.
Ivory Coast is one of the first to benefit from the UN-backed Covax distribution initiative, with injections beginning on Monday.
Ghana is also launching its vaccination drive this week.
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo on Monday became the first to receive a coronavirus vaccine through the scheme.
Mr Akufo-Addo urged people to get inoculated and not to believe conspiracy theories casting doubt on the programme, which will see some 600,000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rolled out nationwide on Tuesday.
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