Africa secures 1 billion vaccine doses

Africa has secured 1 billion vaccines.

This is based on a speech by African Union chairperson and SA President Cyril Ramaphosa.

Through the African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team of the African Union [led by Strive Masiyiwa from Zimbabwe], we have to date secured 1 billion vaccines for the entire continent.
Seven hundred million of these will come from the global COVAX facility and 300 million have been facilitated by the African Vaccine Acquisition Task Team.

Ramaphosa also revealed private sector involvement in the procurement of vaccines

We will be getting other vaccines that will be donated by various private sector companies to add to the vaccines that our continent needs.
MTN, which is one of our companies that operates across a number of countries on the African continent, has made a donation of $25 million to procure 7 million vaccines, which will be made available to countries on the African continent within a matter of weeks.

Ramaphosa said countries like Lesotho, eSwatini, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique as well as Namibia whose citizens travel to SA and vice versa benefit very soon.

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