So far Five African counties have begum vaccination campaigns, with vaccines gifted to them by wealthier countries. For many of the continent’s 1.2 billion people Covid-19 vaccination will come through the COVAX initiative a programme designed to reach many of the poor and vulnerable across the world. Whilst this is a huge task Africa does have the advantage of having developed effective methods of delivering vaccinations with campaigns to fight Polio and Ebola.
In the first episode in the series our reporter Rhoda Odhiambo joins Priscilla Ngethe, to look at how the roll out may work.

(Picture: a girl holds a sign saying 'Thank you Science!'. Liberian photographer Alphanso Appleton took this picture of a schoolgirl and sent it to the Wellcome Trust, to express thanks for their and others’ efforts to develop an Ebola vaccine. Credit: Alphanso Appleton/Wellcome Trust) Show less