COVAX recently delivered five million vaccine doses to Africa, but 15 million doses have been thrown away in the United States since March, according to the head of the WHO in Africa.
he had seen"little change in the global situation since then." Up to this point, only 15% of the 1 billion vaccine doses wealthy nations pledged to re-distribute to low and middle-income countries through COVAX have been delivered. Consequently, the WHO is requesting countries wait until 2022 to start offering third doses to healthy individuals who have already received two jabs.
, the director of Africa's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention."Without that, we are gambling ... It is really still confusing to me why we are moving toward a vast recommendation for third doses.". That's the number of recorded coronavirus cases in Africa since the start of the pandemic, which have led to more than 201,000 deaths.
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