Thread by @DevReimagined

Did you know that #Africa's 55 countries account for just 1.5% of #COVID19 vaccines administered globally? Why? Incompetent governments? Vaccine hesitancy? Poor vaccine efficacy? Our new monthly #infographic report uses the data to explain... A 🧵1/
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To date, less than 3% of the world's #COVID19 cases have been recorded in #Africa, despite having only administered 1.5% of the world's vaccines, and 2% of the world's #COVID19 tests... 2/

However, #Africa is not a country. It's possible to split African countries into 6 categories - depending on total cases they have recorded. Of the 55 African countries, 6 varied countries are currently seeing new daily records of #COVID19 deaths... 3/

These differences across countries are because countries have different border controls, social distancing, and now, vaccination rates. But testing on the continent continues to rise steadily. 4/

In contrast, vaccination deliveries are rising slow. Only 5.4 million vaccine doses arrived on the entire continent this month, bringing total deliveries to date to 38 million, to 47 African countries. 4 countries still don't have their orders. 5/

The amount delivered so far to #Africa is equivalent to 3% of total orders made by African governments and the @_AfricanUnion. Of this 3%, only 43% has been delivered so far through the much anticipated #COVAX. 6/

The rest of the deliveries are from bilateral and private sector - much of which are free, and have kept apace this month, except from #India. France became the first European country to donate vaccines bilaterally to an #African country - 100,000 to #Mauritania. 7/

The vaccines that are arriving in African countries are distributed somewhat unequally. Over half of the vaccines have been delivered to the 4 most populous nations, plus #Morocco. Only 5 countries have enough vaccines to fully vaccinate over 10% of their citizens. 8/

This means close to a third of African countries have already used over 50% of their current vaccines, with little clarity on when further batches will arrive. 9/

#African countries seems to so far behind on priority lists that some small amounts of vaccines have had to be destroyed due to expiry, for instance in #Malawi and #SouthSudan. Some doses have been redistributed due to efficacy and safety concerns. 10/

Overall, while all 47 countries that have received vaccines have started administering them, availability means that numbers of citizens partially and fully vaccinated varies hugely across the continent. Only 0.4% of the #African population has been fully vaccinated. 11/

Faced with new variants of the virus from #UK, #Brazil and #India, poor vaccine availability suggests most African governments will have no choice but to keep tightening border controls and social distancing measures to manage #COVID19. The global supply chain isn't working. 12/

What's the answer? In our accompanying #oped, @RosieRoserver & @OvigweEguegu argue that #localmanufacturing is key, as are #IP waivers, local procurement targets by #globalhealth organisations, skills & infrastructure investment. Read why here. /END
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