Depriving Poor Nations of Vaccines Was Deliberate, AU Envoy Says
- Africa has received less than 1% of global shots given so far
- Covax relied too much on India for vaccine access: Masiyiwa
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Strive Masiyiwa, the telecommunications billionaire tasked with helping the African Union secure Covid-19 vaccines, said the shortage of doses on the continent was a consequence of deliberate action by the world’s richest nations.
While the U.S. has fully vaccinated 45% of its people, the U.K. 47% and the European Union 29%, Africa has had 61.4 million doses delivered for 1.1 billion people. Just 1.1% of the population has been fully vaccinated.