[allAfrica] Johannesburg -- "Last week marked one year since the first COVID-19 vaccines were administered. A year ago, we all hoped that by now vaccines would be helping us all emerge from the long, dark tunnel of the pandemic. Instead, as we enter the third year of the pandemic, the death toll has more than tripled, and the world remains in its grip. Although the number of reported deaths in Africa is lower than in most other regions, we know that they are under-reported. And the excess deaths caused by the virus, and by disruption
