Not less than thirty African countries will be helped by the World Bank through emergency funding for the procurement of vaccines.
Many African countries are yet to start vaccination programmes although Western nations have already vacccinated millions of people.
A larger percentage of African nations rely on the WHO-backed COVAX facility which has shipped vaccines to three African countries already; Ghana, Ivory Coast and Nigeria.
The World Bank says funds are being prepared for the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Niger, Mozambique, Tunisia, eSwatini, Rwanda, Senegal, amongst others but failed to reveal how much they will be getting to aid their vaccines procurement.
The bank has said the funds are available and will be given out as grants to African countries or on highly concessional terms.
A spokesperson of the World Bank said it is the first time the bank will financially back an immunisation plan.
Africa is not as ravaged as the rest of the world but with more than 100,000 deaths recorded so far, the CDC has said it is not in a good place.
Dr. John Nkegasong, the head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control noted the continent has no business recording as many deaths as it has done.
