On February 24, 600,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine arrived in Accra, Ghana. On Tuesday, 3.92 million vaccine doses arrived in Abuja, Nigeria and a further 324,000 in Dakar, Senegal the following day. It plans to deliver two billion vaccine doses all over the world in 2021, including 1.3 billion to low- and middle-income countries. Read MoreThis ambitious international campaign is especially crucial given the deep disparities that have marked Covid-19 vaccine distribution so far. -Dr Zewdu is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation’s deputy director for health in Africa and its Africa Covid-19 response coordinator

Source: Standard Digital March 07, 2021 23:26 UTC