The African Union has accused manufacturers of Covid-19 vaccines of denying African countries a fair chance to buy them, and urged manufacturing countries — in particular India — to lift export restrictions on vaccines and their components.
“Those manufacturers know very well that they never gave us proper access,” Strive Masiyiwa, AU Special Envoy for Covid-19, told a World Health Organisation briefing from Geneva.
“We could have handled this very differently.”
Out of 5.7 billion doses of coronavirus vaccines administered around the world so far, only two per cent have been in Africa, according to a Reuters report.
