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World in Progress: Drones to deliver COVID vaccines?

Some have come up with the idea of using tech such as drones to help deliver vaccines and other health-related supplies. Getting enough COVID vaccines to inoculate their populations has been a struggle for many countries in Africa. Case in point is the Democratic Republic of Congo where only 0.1 % of all people have been fully vaccinated. Elliot Douglas has this story by Caroline Hoffmann.

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