Africa needs about $6bn for vaccines, and another $3bn to deliver them
Afreximbank says that if the supply of Covid-19 vaccines is left to the market, developing countries, including those in Africa, will be left out
23 December 2020 - 16:58
Nairobi — Africa needs about $9bn to finance enough Covid-19 vaccines to halt the pandemic on the continent, but a bigger problem is accessing that supply amid the global race for doses, an Afreximbank official said on Wednesday.
Hippolyte Fofack, Afreximbank chief economist, said the Cairo-based bank and other development finance institutions are working with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to obtain vaccines for the coronavirus...
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