Student Has One Of First Covid-19 Vaccines In Africa

English IN Cambridge student Souleymane Ndéné Ndiaye was only the second person in Senegal and one of the first on the African continent to have the COVID vaccination last week. He followed the Senegalese Minister of Health, Abdoulaye Diouf, in Dakar, broadcast live on TV.

Former Prime Minister Souleymane said, “The vaccine is the only way to protect people from the virus.”

“I want to show people the vaccine is not dangerous. If I take the vaccine, it will help people in my country to accept the vaccine,” he added.

Senegal took an initial 200,000 doses of the the Chinese Simopharm vacinne and will donate 10% to The Gambia and Guinea-Bissau in an act of ‘African Solidarity’.

The country also received a 200,000 doses of the UK’s AstraZeneca vaccine as part of the Covax initiative by UNICEF.