In May 2022, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported that about 81 percent of the population of Africa were yet to receive a single dose of Covid-19 vaccine. [1] The story is different for India: Proving many earlier predictions wrong, and remarkably leveraging its domestic manufacturing capacity, India was able to roll out its vaccination effort quicker than most countries in the developing world. It managed to fully vaccinate almost 70 percent of the total population,[a] although there are variations in coverage across states. [2]
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