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Africa CDC director: What a Covid-19 vaccine could mean

Reports and analysis of the day's political, economic and sports news from across Africa.

John Nkengasong, director of Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC), talks to Focus on Africa about hopes for a Covid-19 vaccine. On Monday, US pharmaceutical company Pfizer announced that an experimental vaccine it has been developing alongside the German firm BioNTech is more than 90% effective in preventing coronavirus infections.

Plus, 6 Nigerians are jailed in the United Arab Emirates, after being convicted of providing funds to Boko Haram by a court in Abu Dhabi.

(Photo: John Nkengasong, director of Africa CDC; Credit: MICHAEL TEWELDE/AFP via Getty Images)

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23 minutes