The AU's COVID special envoy Strive Masiyiwa said the start of the J&J shipments marked a step forward for the continent of more than 1.3 billion people, but in a news conference he called Africa's situation regarding vaccine deliveries a 'crisis'.
The AU's COVID special envoy Strive Masiyiwa said the start of the J&J shipments marked a step forward for the continent of more than 1.3 billion people, but in a news conference he called Africa's situation regarding vaccine deliveries a"crisis".
Africa remains in the grip of a third wave of the pandemic, and in the past four weeks the continent has recorded a 2% increase in cases and a 6% increase in deaths. Masiyiwa said the global vaccine-sharing facility known as COVAX had told the AU in January that it planned to ship 320 million doses to African states by August.As of Monday, African nations had received a total of 103 million COVID vaccine doses from all sources, John Nkengasong, head of Africa's disease control body, told the same virtual news conference.
"The WHO yesterday at a meeting informed us that the actual shipments were less than 13 million" to date, Masiyiwa said. The global partnership COVAX was intended to get shots in arms of people in poor countries whose governments were unable to afford and negotiate deals for vaccines early on.
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