US shipping more coronavirus vaccines to African countries

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The United States will ship more than 1.2 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to four African countries through the global Covax distribution programme, a White House official said.

The shipments include 250,320 doses of the Moderna vaccine for the Democratic Republic of Congo, 657,080 Moderna doses for Uganda, 302,400 doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine for Guinea; and 35,100 doses of the vaccine made by Pfizer and BioNTech for Seychelles, Reuters reported.

The doses are being delivered through Covax, jointly run by the World Health Organisation and the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunization (Gavi).

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