(Bloomberg) -- Only a quarter of African health-care workers are fully vaccinated against Covid-19, the World Health Organization said, citing an analysis it did.
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The continent is the least vaccinated and this has stoked concern that the coronavirus could persist and mutate before spreading to other regions.
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This leaves “the bulk of the workforce on the front lines against the pandemic unprotected,” WHO said in a statement on Wednesday.
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