After suspending the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout in South Africa, last week Ghana became the first African country to receive a shipment of COVID-19 vaccine doses through the COVAX vaccine-sharing initiative.

Here & Now‘s Callum Borchers talks with NPR’s Eyder Peralta about the country’s response to the pandemic and vaccine rollout strategy.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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