S. Africa workers take vaccine drive to remote areas

Countries across Africa are struggling with low rates of vaccination across the continent, with only 17% of African's population has received both doses of the vaccine.

In South Africa, 45% of adults are fully vaccinated. A group of health workers in South Africa, armed with coolers containing the vaccines, drive to rural areas to offer the vaccination to those who are unable to travel for it - but uptake it still low.

They visited Lundini Primary School on Wednesday to offer the vaccine to children who attend the school. South Africa is currently experiencing a surge of new COVID-19 cases driven by two omicron sub-variants, according to health experts.

The country's new surge is from two variations of omicron, BA.4 and BA.5, which appears to be very much like the original strain of omicron that was first, identified in South Africa and Botswana late last year and swept around the globe.