When Africans asked for COVID shots, they didn't get them. Now they don't want them

Sulayman Jalloh, an heath worker vaccinates a driver from the Bundung garage during a mobile vaccination campaign against COVID-19 in Banjul, Gambia May 11, 2022. REUTERS/ Ngouda Dione

DAKAR/ACCRA (Reuters) - It's noisy inside the Mamprobi clinic in Accra as kids clamber over their mothers while they wait to get their measles vaccines. Outside, an area reserved for COVID-19 shots is empty. A health worker leans back in his chair and scrolls on a tablet.

One woman, waiting to get her daughter inoculated, is fully aware of the dangers of measles: the high fever, the rash, the risk to eyesight. But COVID-19? She has never heard of a single case.