{"id":987653620,"date":"2021-03-05T05:45:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-05T04:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/cote-divoire-is-the-first-country-along-with-ghana-to-launch-the-covax-campaign\/"},"modified":"2021-03-05T05:45:57","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T04:45:57","slug":"cote-divoire-is-the-first-country-along-with-ghana-to-launch-the-covax-campaign","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/cote-divoire-is-the-first-country-along-with-ghana-to-launch-the-covax-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire is the first country, along with Ghana, to launch the COVAX campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Ghana and C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire became the first countries to vaccinate their&nbsp;citizens against Covid-10 thanks to Covax. In C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, vaccination began on Monday March 1&nbsp;in Abidjan.<\/p>\n<p>The first AstraZeneca dose was delivered to Patrick Achi, Secretary General of the French Presidency.&nbsp;&#8220;<em>A patriotic duty&#8221;<\/em>, he says. Then it was the turn of the police, nurses and teachers. These are the most exposed trades, according to the executive. Next in line are the over-50s, the chronically ill and international travelers. For the moment, the campaign concerns only Abidjan, the economic capital and epicenter of the epidemic, with 95% of cases.<\/p>\n<p>C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire would like to vaccinate 70% of its population by the end of the year, i.e. over 19 million people.&nbsp;Last Thursday, the country already received 500&nbsp;000&nbsp;Covax vaccines. A further four and a half million vaccines are expected to arrive. And for the rest, the government has promised to buy the doses itself.<\/p>\n<p>In the race to find a vaccine against coronavirus disease, the current challenge is to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.france24.com\/fr\/afrique\/20210302-covid-19-le-ghana-et-la-c%C3%B4te-d-ivoire-lancent-leur-campagne-de-vaccination-gr%C3%A2ce-%C3%A0-covax\">minimize the gap between rich and poor countries<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Ghana and C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire became the first countries to vaccinate their&nbsp;citizens against Covid-10 thanks to Covax. In C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, vaccination began on Monday March 1&nbsp;in Abidjan. The first AstraZeneca dose was delivered to Patrick Achi, Secretary General of the French Presidency.&nbsp;&#8220;A patriotic duty&#8221;, he says. Then it was the turn of the police,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1633,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[124],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987653620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987653620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987653620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987653620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}