US ships more than 2 mln more Covid vaccines to Africa

The White House said Thursday that the US is shipping more than 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to Algeria, Ghana and Yemen, as reported This is Money.

The shipments, which a White House official said would land before the end of this week, will be the first donated by the US to all three countries.

Taken from surplus in the US stockpile, 604,800 doses of Johnson & Johnson's vaccine will go to Algeria, just over 1.2 million doses of Moderna's vaccine to Ghana, and another 151,200 of Johnson & Johnson's doses will go to Yemen, said the official.

All the shipments are being made through Covax programme.

The latest shipments will raise the total number of US doses delivered to Africa to more than 25 million, the official said.