The social media platform TikTok and the philanthropic Gates Foundation have donated $10 million each to the vaccine alliance GAVI to help fund efforts to tackle the Covid-19 pandemic in Africa.

According to Reuters, GAVI said the funds would be used to distribute and deploy any new vaccines against Covid-19 once they are developed, trialled and licensed.

It would also help prevent “a potentially catastrophic impact on immunisation programmes across the developing world,” GAVI Chief Executive Seth Berkley said in a statement.