Following the Delivery of 10 million French doses donated to the African Union under the COVAX and AVATT, 684,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine are due to arrive in Accra, Ghana on December 7, 2021.
A Statement form the French Embassy in Accra, said, ”in August 2021, France committed to donate 10 million doses of AstraZeneca and Pfizer Covid-19 vaccines to African Union Countries”.
”France has now allocated all of these doses to about 30 African countries and most of them have already been delivered”.
”France is providing its full support to the organizations in charge of deployment, Gavi and Unicef, to ensure that the last doses reach the field as quickly as possible”.
The statement noted that these, ”vaccine donations are particularly crucial as a fourth wave, which could be more violent than previous ones,is currently feared on the Continent”.
France says it wanted this action to benefit African countries first and foremost, and it was in a country on this continent, Mauritania, that France made its first donation via COVAX last April.
”France shared its vaccines, simultaneously with its national campaign, as announced by the President of the Republic at the Paris Peace Forum in 2020. Since then, nearly 60% of French donations have been directed to 38 African countries”.
The French Government also says it hoped this move would help to position the Continent to close the gaps, so far as the occurrence of future pandemics are concerned.
”This is a first step, decisive but still insufficient, to close the gap between Africa and developed countries in the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic in terms of access to health products. Our common objective in this regard is, in addition to donations that will accelerate vaccination in the field, to contribute to strengthen
Africa’s production capacity and thus enable it to respond, in a sovereign manner, to the occurrence of future pandemics”.
See details of the statement attached
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