“Three million doses of vaccines donated by the UK have reached 11 African countries, including Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda, to help fight Covid-19; this is the first batch of 80 million vaccines donated through Covax, because we know that no There is one British Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab declared that “everyone is safe”.
Today, Zambia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo) will receive 119,200 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, with another 119,040 doses arriving in Malawi and 140,160 in Senegal on Sunday, plus 299,680 in Egypt on Monday.
The statement added today that “the UK has pledged to share 80 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine through Covax as part of a larger effort to share 100 million doses with the rest of the world.”
In addition to donating vaccines, the UK also supports injection costs, safety funds and air transport, concluded the statement, which asserts that “donations through Covax help increase vaccine coverage, ensure that no dose is wasted and help end the acute phase of the epidemic.”
Africa recorded 1,134 deaths related to the Covid-19 virus in the past 24 hours, bringing the total number of deaths since the beginning of the epidemic to 179,986, and 33,113 newly infected people, according to the latest official data released on Thursday.
According to the Africa Center for Disease Control, the total number of cases on the continent is 7,136,140, and the recoveries are 6,217,218, as well as 11,150 in the past 24 hours.
The first case of COVID-19 in Africa appeared in Egypt on February 14, 2020, and Nigeria was the first country in sub-Saharan Africa to report cases, on February 28.
Covid-19 has caused at least 4,323,957 deaths worldwide, among the more than 204.6 million new coronavirus infections recorded since the beginning of the pandemic, according to the latest report from Agence France-Presse.
The respiratory disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which was discovered in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China, and currently with variants identified in countries such as the United Kingdom, India, South Africa, Brazil or Peru.
