Vaccine protests

Protesters against Africa’s first Covid19 vaccine trial burned their face masks yesterday as experts note a worrying level of resistance and misinformation around testing on the continent. Anti-vaccine sentiment in Africa is “the worst I’ve ever seen”, chief executive of the GAVI vaccine alliance, Seth Berkley said. The trial that began last week in Johannesburg is part of one already underway in Britain of the vaccine developed at the University of Oxford. Some 2000 volunteers in South Africa are expected to take part.