The Director of the West Centre for Cell Biology of Infectious Pathogens (WACCBIP), Professor Gordon Awandrae, has noted that while most African countries and Africans wait for our first doses, others countries are planning for their third.
His comments come after Pfizer, one of the world's premier biopharmaceutical companies producing vaccines for COVID, said it is seeing waning immunity from it's COVID-19 vaccine and plans to develop a booster dose.
Hours after Pfizer issued it statement, America's Food and Drugs Authority (FDA) and Centres for Disease and Control (CDC) issued a joint statement saying American's do not need booster shots yet.
"Americans who have been fully vaccinated do not need a booster shot at this time," they said. The World Health Organization said, "We don't know whether booster vaccines will be needed to maintain protection against COVID-19 until additional data is collected," adding, "limited data available on how long the protection from current doses lasts and whether an additional booster dose would be beneficial and for whom".
Commenting on this development, Professor Awandare said "This is very interesting but quite ominous for Africa.