White House says U.S. has shipped 55 million vaccine doses to Africa to beat COVID-19, announces new deal between African Union and Moderna for additional 50 million doses

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Simon Ateba( Chief White House Correspondent )

Simon Ateba is Chief White House Correspondent for Today News Africa. Simon covers President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, the U.S. government, the United Nations, the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other financial and international institutions in Washington D.C. and New York City.

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The White House said on Tuesday that the United States has shipped at least 55 million vaccine doses to Africa to beat COVID-19 in one of the world’s least vaccinated continents. This is in addition to the 17 million doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine that will be sent to Africa in the coming weeks, and tens of millions of Pfizer vaccines that will be shipped between this year and next.