US to donate 500m Pfizer doses to poor nations ‘no strings attached’
A previous shipment of Covid vaccines arrives in Accra, Ghana. Africa trails the world in Covid-19 vaccinations due to a shortage in doses. PHOTO | FILE | NMG
The United States has committed to buy and donate 500 million doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine to 92 low- and lower-middle-income countries, including those in the African Union.
This comes as the World Health Organisation last week on Thursday sounded the alarm on low vaccination numbers in the continent, saying that only seven African countries are likely to meet its goal to vaccinate 10 percent of its population against the coronavirus by September.
