The European Union (EU) today announced a donation of nearly 100 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson covid-19 vaccine to several African countries by the end of the year.
According to a press release, the first batches of vaccine donated by Team Europe (EU, Iceland and Norway) are being delivered to Niger (496,800 doses), Djibouti (50,400), Nigeria (2,764,800), Togo (633,600), Democratic Republic of Congo (230,400), Guinea (496,800) and Mauritania (144,000), with deliveries to other countries continuing in the coming weeks.
This batch of 99.6 million doses of Johnson & Johnson’s vaccine is donated through the Covax mechanism and is part of the EU’s commitment to share at least 500 million doses in the coming months with the most vulnerable countries.
Covid-19 has caused at least 5,144,573 deaths worldwide, among more than 256.54 million infections by the new coronavirus recorded since the start of the pandemic, according to the most recent assessment by Agence France-Presse.
The disease is caused by the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, detected in late 2019 in Wuhan, a city in central China, and currently with variants identified in several countries.
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