World Bank commits $12bn for vaccination in Africa
The World Bank has committed $12 billion to African countries to support vaccination programs.
The South African President, Cyril Ramaphosa said in a statement on its website on Saturday that the World Bank money would be in the form of grants or on “highly concessional terms”.
The statement follows a January 27 virtual meeting on the Africa Covid-19 vaccine financing and deployment strategy, which was attended by David Malpass, president of the World Bank.
Even in the most devastated US counties, the latest Covid-19 surge is receding, buying authorities time as they attempt to vaccinate about 330 million people.
According to USA Facts, a nonprofit statistics aggregator used by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, recent hot spots including Webb County, Texas; Maricopa County, Arizona; and Greenville and Spartanburg counties in South Carolina have seen cases trend downward in the past week
Among the top-five hot spots with populations of at least 250,000, only Pinal County, Arizona, saw cases increase.
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