The WHO on Tuesday announced that 237 million doses of AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine are expected to be delivered to 142 countries by the end of May through the COVAX facility.
Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, WHO director-general, said that vaccine deliveries were planned on Tuesday to Angola, Cambodia, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria.
Ghana’s president Nana Akufo-Addo said that West Africa, which has begun its inoculation campaign with COVAX doses, aims to vaccinate 20 million people by the end of 2021.