Africa to be a priority for G7’s donated COVID-19 vaccine doses- WHO

GENEVA, June 14 (Reuters) – Africa will get priority treatment for the Group of Seven’s pledged 870 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine, a senior World Health Organization adviser said on Monday.

“You will see that Africa is one of the most vulnerable, under-served (areas), so the priority would be for doses to go… to the African continent writ large. Those numbers will be sorted out the coming weeks,” Bruce Aylward, a senior WHO adviser and coordinator of the ACT (Access to COVID-19 Tools) Accelerator, told an online news briefing from Geneva. (Reporting by Emma Farge and Stephanie Nebehay, Editing by Michael Shields)