Opening Ceremony of the High-level virtual Conference on expanding Africa’s vaccine manufacturing for health security
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Your Excellency President Felix Tshisekedi,
Your Excellency President Cyril Ramaphosa,
Your Excellency President Paul Kagame,
Your Excellency [President] Moussa Faki Mahamat,
Excellencies, distinguished guests, dear colleagues and friends,
Good afternoon and thank you so much for the opportunity to share a few reflections with you today.
The development, approval and rollout of safe and effective vaccines against COVID-19 is giving us all hope of bringing the pandemic under control.
Around the world, 194 countries and economies have now started vaccination, and 26 have not.
COVAX has now delivered more than 38 million doses of vaccine to 105 countries and economies in the past six weeks.
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has hailed the African Union (AU) and its partners for efforts in procuring Covid-19 vaccines for countries on the continent, saying the bloc boasts