As of early April, of the 1.7 billion Covid-19 vaccine doses ordered by African countries and the African Union, only 5.7% had arrived, and only 37% of those had been administered, according to Development Reimagined, a Kenyan institute headquartered in Beijing.
Although there is improvement — in March 15.7 million doses had been received by 20 countries, while in April 33.1 million doses had been received by 44 — this supply is sufficient to vaccinate only around 1% of the population of the continent.
Eight countries have vaccinated over 1% of their people, and only two — Morocco and Seychelles — have reached the level of 10%.
