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African governments may have to impose vaccine mandates, says Africa CDC

FILE PHOTO: A healthcare professional prepares a dose of AstraZeneca (COVID-19) vaccine at the Narok County Referral Hospital, in Narok, Kenya, December 1, 2021. REUTERS/Baz Ratner

African governments will have no choice but to start imposing vaccine mandates if citizens refuse to get vaccinated against COVID-19, the head of the African Centres for Disease Control said on Thursday.

(Reporting by Ayenat Mersie and James Macharia; Writing by Estelle Shirbon; Editing by Alison Williams)

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