MTN Donates $25M to Secure a Million Doses of Vaccines for Health Workers in Africa

The final Covax target is set to provide up to 600 million doses of vaccines to Africa, enough to vaccinate at least 20% of the population by the end of 2021.

But John Nkengasong, the head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), says the vaccines provided “will not get the pandemic out” of the continent.

He says African countries will eventually need to vaccinate at least 60% of their populations, with his target for this year being 35%.

There’s also an African Union plan to pool supply arrangements on behalf of all 55 countries in the continent.

Africa’s leading mobile network provider, MTN, has made a donation of $25m (£17.8m) to this plan to secure about seven million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine for the continent’s health workers.