Africa-Press – Gambia. On the basis of these trends, less than 1.6 per cent of the total population across ECOWAS will have been fully (double) vaccinated after 18 months of the Covid-19 vaccination roll-out, estimate the researchers.West African nations need to drastically ramp up their Covid-19 vaccination programmes by a factor of 10 if they are to reach at least 60 per cent coverage by 2022 and achieve the population level immunity needed to bring the pandemic under control in Africa and elsewhere, a team of international researchers has written in BMJ Global Health.
In August 2020, the African Union Bureau of Heads of State and Government endorsed the Covid-19 Vaccine Development and Access Strategy to vaccinate at least 60 per cent of each country’s population with a safe and effective vaccine by 2022.
But despite the recent sharing of surplus vaccines by wealthy countries, as of mid-September 2021, just 3 per cent of people in Africa had had at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine compared with around 60 per cent of people in high-income countries.
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