We’re skeptical about vaccines, fear needles and not tech savvy...

Covid-19 vaccine

A medical worker administers a Covid-19 vaccine. Tanzania is struggling with vaccine skepticism. PHOTO | FILE | NMG 


By  Elsie Eyakuze

Columnist

What you need to know:

  • It can be amusing getting a vaccine in a vaccine-skeptical country.
  • Of the 300,000 who have been vaccinated so far only 100,000 are women. After

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