African countries turn to Sputnik V

Staff Writer As the global demand for COVID-19 vaccines continue to increase, a position also worsened by rising cases in India which manufactures the Covishield (the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine) and Covaxin, many African countries have begun turning to Russia to acquire its Sputnik V vaccine. This comes as India halted large exports of vaccines in an effort to expand its domestic vaccination programme with country currently seating on 332,730 new cases, bringing the country total caseload to over 16 million and deaths reaching 186,920. In Namibia, the Sputnik V is among COVID-19 vaccines that government, through the Ministry of Health have…