Africa will get priority treatment for the Group of Seven's pledged 870 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, a senior World Health Organization adviser said on Monday.
"You will see that Africa is one of the most vulnerable, under-served , so the priority would be for doses to go... to the African continent writ large.
Those numbers will be sorted out the coming weeks," Bruce Aylward, a senior WHO adviser and coordinator of the ACT Accelerator, told an online news briefing from Geneva.Subscribe for our daily curated newsletter to receive the latest exclusive Reuters coverage delivered to your inbox.
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