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Just 2 per cent or less of the population has been fully vaccinated in half of the African countries that have received COVID vaccines, said the WHO

The World Health Organisation African Region says 15 African countries, nearly a third of the continent’s 54 nations have fully vaccinated 10% of their people against COVID-19.

Vaccine hesitancy in many parts of Africa has emerged as a potent threat to efforts to mitigate COVID-19 and could considerably counteract wider move to contain the pandemic, despite significant gains made to control the disease in the continent. There is consensus among a cross-section of health experts from the continent that the fight against COVID-19 must address the pockets of apathy and reluctance that now threaten to derail mitigation of the disease. The World Health Organization (WHO) d...

2021-05-20 16:31:19 GMT2021-05-21 00:31:19(Beijing Time) Xinhua English NAIROBI, May 20 (Xinhua) -- Massive inoculation against the COVID-19 disease in Africa is almost grinding to a halt amid limited finances and inability to acquire additional vaccine doses linked to the crisis in India, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said Thursday. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO regional director for Africa decried the rampant shortage of the vaccine in the continent that has jeopardized efforts to...

Risks and challenges in Africa’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout Format Africas largest-ever vaccination drive is well under way. Forty-nine African countries are rolling out COVID-19 vaccines and over 22 million doses have been given on the continent. Valuable lessons are emerging, but major risks and challenges threaten Africas fragile gains. Supply crunch African countries, particularly the approximately 40 nationsrelying on doses from COVAX and the Serum Institute of India, are being left behind...

COVID-19 vaccine: Nigeria’s procurement suffers setback over budget delay Kindly share this story: KAYODE OYERO The Federal Ministry of Health has yet to submit a budget proposal to the National Assembly for the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines — over one month after the legislative arm of government asked the ministry to do so, Sunday PUNCH has learnt. This has, however, begun to spark fears that the delay may affect the procurement of the much-awaited vaccines. The Minister of Health, Dr...

Nigeria may spend over N540bn on COVID-19 vaccines • FG reveals plan to immunise over 120 million Nigerians • Minister, top health officials meet NASS Monday over funding Our correspondents NIGERIA may spend about $1.4bn (N540.4bn, at the official exchange rate of $1: N386) to procure and distribute 218,400,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccines, Sunday PUNCH has learnt. The figure is based on estimates of the World Health Organisation as regards the total amount of funds that Africa would need to...

Africa needs $9bn for 1.4bn COVID-19 vaccines doses – WHO Eniola Akinkuotu, Abuja THE World Health Organisation says Africa will need at least $9bn to procure and distribute 1.4 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines. The Immunisation and Vaccines Development Programme Coordinator, WHO, D. Richard Mihigo, said this on Thursday at the WHO Africa online press briefing on ramping up preparedness for COVID-19 vaccine roll-out in Africa. Mihigo stated that there was a need to ensure an equitable and t...

Davidson Irikpen The Chair of the board of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has assured that Nigeria and other African countries will have access to COVID-19 vaccines from the end of January 2021. This is as the World Health Organisation (WHO) yesterday said Africa would need at least $9bn to procure and distribute 1.4 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines. A statement released by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs quoted Okonjo-Iweala as making this statement during a meeting with th...