Health workers in Abidjan take vaccination campaign to traders at popular markets in Ivory Coast's financial capital city. With megaphones in hand, the health workers urge traders and shoppers alike to get vaccinated against COVID-19.
Traders and customers at the market in Treichville, a neighbourhood in Abidjan, gathered to register, and receive their jabs from a mobile health unit parked outside.
"I have just received my COVID vaccine, I am really relieved, because I have been wanting to do it for a long time. I came to the market in Treichville, I saw the people in the campaign so I took advantage of it. I am really happy and relieved", vaccine recipient, Amsatouu Diallo said.
Luicie Kpan Toure is a health worker, and she wants "everyone to have access to the vaccination".
"I hope there is no shortage of vaccines, so the we don't have a third wave of contamination because there have been too many deaths, so we really should not stop the vaccination...