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- COVID-19 vaccination programs have begun in many countries and territories in Africa. In June 2021, the World Health Organization predicted that 47 of Africa's 54 nations would fall short of the aim of vaccinating 10% of their people by September 2021. In June, Africa accounted for fewer than 1% of worldwide vaccine doses delivered. Africa received in total less than 2% of the 3 billion vaccination doses provided globally. As of 5 July 2021, vaccination campaigns had started in 51 African countries with 36.5 million people receiving at least one dose. On 15 July 2021, WHO Africa's coordinator for immunization and vaccines development reported that African nations had destroyed some 450,000 vaccine doses due to their expiry dates. He cited , , , , , , , and the as examples. Also in July 2021, the European Investment Bank committed to fund Senegal's first COVID-19 vaccine production factory, at Institut Pasteur de Dakar. By the end of 2022, this factory is expected to manufacture up to 25 million doses of a licensed COVID-19 vaccine per month. This is part of a wide effort by the European Investment Bank to address the health and economic impact of COVID-19. Meanwhile, BioNTech and the European Union are collaborating to assess mRNA vaccine production facilities in Rwanda and Senegal. In seven African countries the entire targeted population had been fully vaccinated by the end of 2021. At the other end of the scale, there was no mass vaccination in , while in and the less than 0.4% of the targeted population had been fully vaccinated. (en)
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