{"id":987653126,"date":"2021-07-28T03:18:23","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T02:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/news\/africa-covid19-cfaf-9-5-billion-and-cfaf-3-billion-to-be-raised-to-ensure-10-vaccine-coverage\/"},"modified":"2021-07-28T03:18:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-28T02:18:23","slug":"africa-covid19-cfaf-9-5-billion-and-cfaf-3-billion-to-be-raised-to-ensure-10-vaccine-coverage","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/news\/africa-covid19-cfaf-9-5-billion-and-cfaf-3-billion-to-be-raised-to-ensure-10-vaccine-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Covid19: CFAF 9.5 billion and CFAF 3 billion to be raised to ensure 10% vaccine coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the World Bank, in addition to the $9.5&nbsp;billion needed to purchase enough vaccine to ensure sufficient protection against COVID-19, a further $3 billion will be required to finance vaccination operations.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the COVAX Mechanism, some 60&nbsp;million doses should be received in the coming weeks through vaccine purchase programs or donations from the USA, Team Europe, the UK and other partners. In all, more than 500&nbsp;million doses will be delivered through COVAX alone this year.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>&#8221;&nbsp;A massive influx of doses means that Africa must do its utmost to ensure a vaccine deployment operation five to six times faster, in order to be able to administer all these doses and fully vaccinate the 10&nbsp;% of most vulnerable Africans by the end of September&nbsp;&#8220;,&nbsp; <\/em>Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Regional Director for Africa.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journaldumali.com\/2021\/07\/23\/covid19-vaccination-lobjectif-de-couverture-vaccinale-de-10-lafrique-dici-septembre\/\">this article<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the World Bank, in addition to the $9.5&nbsp;billion needed to purchase enough vaccine to ensure sufficient protection against COVID-19, a further $3 billion will be required to finance vaccination operations. Thanks to the COVAX Mechanism, some 60&nbsp;million doses should be received in the coming weeks through vaccine purchase programs or donations from the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1633,"featured_media":987529640,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[170],"tags":[124,133],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1633"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=987653126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/987653126\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/987529640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=987653126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=987653126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/p4h.world\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=987653126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}