African bishops warn second-largest continent has few vaccines
Workers load South Africa’s first Covid-19 vaccine doses as they arrive at O.R. Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg February 1. Photo: CNS.
In parts of Africa, mass vaccination against Covid-19 is so far off that it is not even mentioned, warned bishops across the African continent. The malnourished people in the Nuba Mountains, South Sudan are “moving skeletons,” and their compromised immune systems expose them “to all kinds of diseases, not just Covid-19,” Bishop Macram Max Gassis,…