US to donate 25 million vaccine doses to African countries under COVAX as continent struggles to weather third wave

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The Biden administration has announced that it will ship 25 million doses of Covid vaccines to 49 countries across Africa through the Covax jab distribution scheme, as infections and deaths on the continent rise dramatically.

The US State Department’s coordinator for Covid-19 recovery and global health, Gayle Smith, announced the plan in a statement on Friday, saying it was being made “in partnership with the African Union and COVAX.”

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