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Jun 23, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
“The richest guys grabbed the baker...”

Strive Masiyiwa, who heads Africa’s vaccination acquisition task team, lays into the ‘deliberate’ hoarding of vaccines by Western nations, which he says has left Africa short of vaccines

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[THREAD] Strive Masiyiwa: “We have grandmothers that are dying. You can watch the Euros without masks on... ”

Rich nations have deliberately kept Africa from buying and producing vaccines and Covax hasn’t helped.
Feb 22, 2021 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
#Thread

African countries that have started COVID19 vaccinations on different scales:

🇿🇼 Zimbabwe (Sinopharm)
🇩🇿 Algeria (Sputnik V)
🇪🇬 Egypt (Sinopharm)
🇲🇺 Mauritius (AZ)
🇲🇦 Morocco (Sinopharm, AstraZeneca)
🇿🇦 SA (J&J)
🇸🇨 Seychelles (Sinopharm, AZ)
🇷🇼 Rwanda (Moderna) Zimbabwe 🇿🇼

Started vaccination rollout Feb 18 using 200K Sinopharm doses donated by China. District centres start vaccinations today. Zim expects 600K more doses bought from Sinopharm early March, and more under COVAX and AU facilities