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US Reevaluating African Travel Ban, African Nations COVID Vaccine
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Dec 7, 20211:53Now PlayingIn the Africa diaspora, President Joe Biden’s Chief Medical Advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci says the U.S. is rethinking its travel ban on southern African countries since the emergence of the very contagious COVID-19 omicron variant.
The change of heart comes just a week after Dr. Fauci said the ban would give U.S. officials proper prep time to fight against omicron.
African nations are now developing blueprints on manufacturing their own COVID-19 vaccines, as the global vaccine distribution pledge of two billion doses by the end of the year will not be reached, falling short by hundreds of millions of doses.
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