Africa CDC Saving Lives and Livelihoods Initiative: A Snapshot of COVID-19 Vaccination Scale Up in Central Africa Region
The COVID-19 pandemic has pushed 29 million Africans into extreme poverty and accounted for the loss of about 22 million jobs in African countries (African Development Bank (AfDB), Annual report 2021). Despite this, only 9.2% of the continent’s population was vaccinated against the Virus as of December 31, 2022, a rate the AfDB Report termed …