Sudan launches vaccination roll-out for medical workers
SUDAN yesterday launched a coronavirus vaccination roll-out, giving priority to medical workers, state news agency SUNA said. Health care workers at Jabra isolation hospital in the capital Khartoum started to get their first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine, the agency said, adding that the first phase of the roll-out will be expanded from March 15 to May 15 to include people aged 45 or older with chronic conditions. The first phase will cover 3.5% of the country's population. Sudan became the first country in the Middle East and North Africa to benefit from COVAX facility vaccines when it received 828,000…