About 38 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been acquired by the continent out of which 22.4 million doses have so far been administered, representing 1.8 per cent of the African population.
Meanwhile, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 4,660,304 as of Thursday, the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said yesterday.
Africa CDC, the specialised healthcare agency of the 55-member African Union (AU), said the death toll from the pandemic stood at 125,404 while 4,219,117 patients across the continent have recovered from the disease. South Africa, Morocco, Tunisia, Ethiopia and Egypt are among the countries with the most cases in the continent.
In terms of the number of cases, the southern Africa region is the most affected area, followed by northern Africa and eastern Africa regions, while Central Africa is the least affected region in the continent.
According to the Africa CDC, African countries have used close to 58.87 per cent of the vaccine supply available.
It said five member states – Morocco, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Egypt and Kenya have administered the most doses of COVID-19 vaccines to their respective populations. Morocco comes first administering 10.13 million vaccines, with 11.9 per cent of the country’s population fully vaccinated.
Nigeria comes second administering 1.67 million COVID-19 vaccines, with 0.82 per cent of the population fully vaccinated. Ethiopia is in third place administering 1.3 million vaccines, with 1.13 per cent of the population fully vaccinated.