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Africa-Press – Eritrea. <\/strong><\/span>Only five African countries will meet the target of fully vaccinating 40% of their populations against COVID-19 unless the pace of inoculations accelerates across the continent, World Health Organization said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The COVID-19 vaccine rollout may be slowed by an \u201cimminent shortfall\u201d of up to 2.2 billion auto-disposable syringes globally needed to administer the jab and routine immunisations barring an increase in their manufacturing, WHO Africa said.<\/p>\n

At present there is no global stockpile of the specialised syringes which are in high demand, and they will remain in short supply at least through the first quarter of 2022.<\/p>\n

WHO Africa said in a statement that Kenya, Rwanda and South Africa have already experienced delays in receiving syringes.<\/p>\n

\u201cEarly next year COVID-19 vaccines will start pouring into Africa, but a scarcity of syringes could paralyse progress. Drastic measures must be taken to boost syringe production, fast,\u201d said Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Africa\u2019s director.<\/p>\n

So far, the continent has fully vaccinated 77 million people, just 6% of its population.<\/p>\n

About 50 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have arrived on the continent this month, almost double September\u2019s arrivals, WHO Africa said.<\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, at the current pace, Africa still faces a 275 million shortfall of COVID-19 vaccines against the year-end target of fully vaccinating 40% of its people,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n

As of Thursday, Africa had close 8.5 million confirmed COVID-19 cases and more than 217,000 deaths, WHO Africa said.<\/p>\n

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