Only 15 of Africa's 54 nations have fully vaccinated 10 per cent of their populations against Covid-19 and many frontline health workers remain at risk, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO) and International Council of Nurses (ICN).

They called for speeding up the distribution of doses to those at risk on the continent amid what the WHO called "opaque delivery plans" and "bottlenecks" in the rollout of vaccines in Africa.

Howard Catton, chief executive officer of the Geneva-based ICN, told Reuters that it analysed data from nine African countries.

It showed that approximately a third of health workers were still waiting for their first dose of vaccine and only about 10pc had been fully vaccinated.

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