Nearly 85% of all COVID-19 vaccine doses globally have been administered in high- and upper-middle-income countries, according to the World Health Organization.
Less than 1% of Africa's population is fully vaccinated, and the continent is seeing a surge of cases, according to the WHO."We’ve seen in India and elsewhere just how quickly COVID-19 can rebound and overwhelm health systems.
So public health measures must be scaled up fast to find, test, isolate and care for patients and to quickly trace their contacts.".
President Joe Biden and the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday warned the variant could pose a new public health threat in the U.S.
sent Taiwan 2.5 million doses of Moderna's COVID-19 vaccine, which triples an earlier pledge.Â
More than 149 million Americans have been fully vaccinated – nearly 45% of the population, according to the CDC.Â