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the coast hypersonic missiles can the world of new alms rates as russia takes the lead and missiles that can fly up to 20 times the speed of sound. rwandan forces help clear up motion beats militants. insurgency will oil johnson migrant workers for to come to the cost analysis here the the cobra, 1900 pandemic has had a devastating impact around the world from putting enormous pressure on health care systems, in many cases, to breaking point to putting the world economy on track to a possible recession. but the pandemic has also made clear another problem of our time. global inequality. as wealthy countries stockpile cove in 1900 vaccine, 50 percent of adults in europe, us and the u. k. have now been fully vaccinated. vaccination rates remain extremely low in countries across africa by the us,

the 2 percent of the continent people have been fully vaccinated. the african union of the world health organization that played a central role in the vaccination at but across the continent. but $47.00 of africa's $54.00 countries are expected to miss september's target of vaccinating 10 percent of the citizens. so how can we bridge the vaccine gap, threatening the african continent? what plans are in place to increase the number of vaccines heading to the region? the director of the africa centers for disease control and prevention. doctor john, king of song, talks to al jazeera ah, the john and candace old director of africa center for disease control and prevention. thank you for talking to us on al jazeera, who just begin with your overall assessment of the code 19 vaccine rollout across the continent. what are your initial impressions?

they roll out of the cupboard 900 vaccine on the continent has been churches appointment as we speak today. less than 2 percent of the eligible population in africa have been a fully vast net which is very unfortunate. if you recognize that we have to ease immunize up to about 70 percent of our population. and we have less than 2 percent . that tells you that we have an incredibly long journey to go to get to where we have to be. so it has been a total. ready disappointment haven't set, that is there's hope because, you know, the african bucks in a position past team has now signed a contract of about 400000000 dollars of johnson and johnson. vaccines will delivery it about 2 weeks ago. so where we remain optimistic that the challenges,

numbers we are making some progress in broad brush strikes. why has it been so bad for africa? was we've seen europe do incredibly well. it has been challenging to africa because we did not produce vaccines. we were hoping and relying on the cove us in facility, which is the mechanism that was set up by gobby. we're had organization, coalition for epidemic preparedness, innovation to have about sins, distribute them in a timely fashion and the country, and how many countries that actually contributed money into their covert facility and by and most vaccines. so it became a very challenging situation for the continent. was the kovak scheme and sort of the un auspices a disappointment or a failure because it hasn't really helped africa and the way it should house. i would say that the principal is behind callbacks that is to acquire vaccines,

their basket and then made it available to result. ready limited such in a timely fashion, the principal, under values, the values of corporation, their values of solidity were phone bet. it wasn't the implementation, didn't really follow through it because of what i just explained earlier. that there countries that mid pledges committed to supporting cobra, ended up buying most of the vaccines. so it became very challenging for us to get the situation in india. and that was caused by the death baby and that emerged, it made it so that the government of india impose on the export of vaccines, especially to aster, then a couple options from india. so that made a situation very complex. it does raise the question, doesn't as a sort of vaccine equity, because that's been a huge talking point. this last for 18 months of the pandemic for global leaders,

you know, in the west and developed world war might say they failed africa because one has to get african leaders to push. you might say the developed world and politicians to listen to africa to help africa, and to make sure that the voices heard in terms of getting the vaccine. and africa has been failed when he, by those promises that haven't been fulfilled by developed countries. absolutely. i think it's as simple or should that picture has been poorly as to what a core, international cooperation, unfinished, necessary, when this funded makes that reset order. right? things the right things. we're that we need, we need it time. the app says, a particular distribution of actions, but when they're about, since we have, which in my view, in my or more than 3 tickets in probably heard beverages cents was

incredibly fast in producing vaccines. but haven't set that africa as you left behind behind significantly. so i think that the spirit of international cooperation and so that he feared africa significantly. well, let's just focus it now on the continent and recent w h, i statistic suggest there is a north south divide in terms of infection rate. 64 percent increase in the south. 24 percent increase in the north. both areas account for 88 percent of the continents death toll algeria, botswana. d r. c s with teeny. the su to malawi, retainer there is a big rwanda sending golf south africa's in bob, a, libya, tennessee, and morocco, seeing a huge delta very, and increases how concerned to you about the delta variant across the continent. i'm concerned about their top area and spread across the country and but not

surprised. this is a battery that has an increase sounds, mr. ability rate of more than 40 to 50 percent compared to the wire type. batteries that we initially were dealing with. it has not ratio which is the rate of production of more than it, which means that is press and in fact that has the chance of impacting it. more people are accepting that is very confident. i'm very consent to perspective one is that because of the rapid sped of the database and we have seen her facilities across the continent that fully over whim. and this is a scenario that mirrors what we saw in india in april may timeline. because of this situation as well, does there be in the database we are seeing that the best missions process would be

the challenge is very concerned. and what is even more confident is that we don't know what we don't know. we don't know that the variance, we emerge that actually be even more aggressive and more transmissible, more challenging to dive. i've seen that we are using that i'm the desktop area. and so i think the best way to avoid that in my view, would be to increase our ability to, for vast mission update on the continent. because we now know that the desktop area is challenging people that are already been investigated. and we've seen up search in this new number of new cases across the world, not just in, in africa, in terms of dealing with the pandemic and dealing with whether it's delta variance or any of the other variance. in your opinion, are there any countries across africa that are, you might see dealing with the situation in terms of the infrastructure in terms of hospitalization or the medical facilities that are available?

or is it just to unfair to say, you know, africa, the last calls? no country is actually dealing with this properly because they just don't have the facilities and they're just to pull. no, absolutely, best distribution in africa over or has been dealing with multiple waves of all of these fun. they make much phases. as you recall, as we speak about 32 countries in africa, i've been through ted with about 4 or 5 again to put on that. but what is remarkable is that in most countries up there would affect me if they brought it down. then of course, the ease, the locked down situations was picked up and they have to deal with a 2nd week. and then they tell me what that suggest to everybody is that after get in many countries in africa, actually know how to implement probably have measures because we don't have boxing

and the tools that we have in this position. now, i probably had majors because they're locked down. what is it and is that you probably had made us alone were not enable us to avoid subsequent ways. i think we need massive phoenicians to enable us to prevent this ad radium of lock downs. and then you have another wave and then you look down something that is not going to have me and have have systems if we continue to do that, we just need to again focus on getting back here. so about all, many countries in africa extremely where in trying to maintain the spread of their barrows at levels that they can at least play with downs and then probably had majors and why waiting for vaccines to arrive confounding the problem for those of us on the outside, looking at what's going on across africa is what we hear news that countries like the democratic republic of congo below your south sudan have destroyed vaccines

because the expiry date was very close to the potential for the using them. so whose fault is it? is the distribution issue, is it a lack of coordination in respect of national countries that they have to get the vaccine out and into the arms of those that need it? no say you say that the vaccine is available, but in the same breath, we are now seeing physical evidence that vaccines having to be destroyed. and that's incredibly disheartening for global population, who, somewhere in the world would say, you know what, i'd have taken that vaccine even it was near is expiry date. anybody seen that is destroyed on the continent is a terribly unfortunate. we just see to see an african union, a very clear about that and we are doing something with that. we have, we have teams in the, in several countries that are supporting countries to make sure that those are vaccines that are available actually used, especially as it is. but we have to put all these extra dance in context. i think

this is the 1st time that it come to the continent of africa will be rough niche and adores upscale. and we also have to put out in the context that there was a lot of disruption investigation programs, way initiative. since we deliver the top people, we're eager to take about scenes than that in a way to take the 2nd dose of the about sin. and there was a lot of misinformation and miscommunication down generated by social media across the world. not just enough, johnny created a lot of a better early on misunderstanding, mishaps approaches to where that people should go get your students or not. but if you look at this edition now you, that's significantly wrong. i mean, i'm just about 4 morocco last week where you saw lines, lines, people in spot stadium which into received about since you've also seen similar scenarios in rwanda and in kenya,

where the along lines of people out there within to be to be best knit included india or c. okay, i major. yeah. now you have use up about 99 percent of vaccines, which in for about 2 or 3 days and in the best condition. and now we see especially with a few of the 3rd wave, where people actually saw last and but people die. and i think dissertation is changing a lot. now what we need is access to about, since i don't think that i'm so much concerned about his tendency at this point to things actually because both the us and the w h o r were encouraging and hoping that the 30 percent vaccination level of the population of the content would be reached by the end of the year. and then you also have the added problem if i can also suggest which is that you've touched upon, is the way the vaccines are produced. and that being produced, obviously in south africa. but it took several rather poser to actually step in and say, no, the vaccines that are produced in south africa should be for the continent and not exported beyond the content that you have these 2 scenarios at the moment when you

get 30 percent of the population vaccinated, and will you keep vaccines produced on the continent in the continent, in touch on a very important point to the political leadership of the continent in fighting discipline and may have been extraordinary. and really exceptional and sharp pricing. infection is on the continent, the leader in me, expressed by pressed in my post as in east capacity previously as a job, the african union. and now there could be jumped on has been remarkable. and these tend to use interpretation, personal commitment and intervention that some of those vaccines that were produced in south africa as ship outside of the continent were actually at hearted. and a whole arrangement was made so that africa should have its own there seems produced in south africa, and that's how the african vaccine that position tustin that is coordinated by mr.

strive my few are actually begin to get about. since i think that is a credit has to go to depress them and i put the african union commission to jefferson with stuff like the demonstrated extraordinary. ready commitment to support in africa, you see to engage in with different putting up their continental should have at about seen. so that is a scenario that we are learning from it and building on it as well. so we really hope that going forward as a south africa send, they go morocco, egypt begins to produce vaccines, does not seem to be used on the continent. export that outside of the continent, the world health organization. and i'm quoting, the facts that we can get from these organizations predicts that 47 of the 54 countries that they've looked at in africa will miss out on the very modest sort of september target

a vaccinating at least 10 percent of their populations is. am i correct in thinking burundi? it's still one country that hasn't administered a single vaccine and the poses the next question about the vaccine hesitancy in some african countries. i mean a tribal and religious issue sometimes get in the way of sheer fact in science. i remain hopeful that the about sin access situation will improve in the next coming months without it actually enabled us to get to the target that we hope we hope to achieve that is that target up immunize in 25 to 30 percent of our population by the end of the year remains a question, but i think with effort from the african vaccine acquisition testing, we did donations that we are seeing increasingly made better by putting us that the united states from some others. we really hope that those efforts to enable us to

at least to get to the appropriate tag is that look to jump in that doctor. i would appreciate yes that you're saying that you'd want to reach those targets with your relevant agency. what i'm talking about is the cultural differences across africa and the tribal beliefs of traditional medicine against somebody who's a complete stranger, who comes into your village or town. as, as i'm a scientist, what i put in your arm is much better than what you've been dealing with on a tribal social level for decades. days for any campaign to be successful against infectious diseases you have to factor in. but until you cut your competence that to fight, did you have to do with your under trust coverage that you'd be with the community? we saw this in the outbreak in west africa. we saw this in our see

where use again we have valuable us xtreme the difficult to, i mean you stopped us about scenes on to unless we use the local community to in doing that. so this is not new. i mean that use the concept. ready of making sure that community, they look at community place a center or in expanding the administration of any rock scenes or even treatment program is very, you know, i think probably heard is, is go by but implementation is look, i think that is true for or did you, this is also true for this is not unique for it. we saw it is didn't pull your campaigns and we see it is also in other muslim mission campaigns when, at the different communities actually resist step boxes that are available. indeed, when we come to sort of that scene availability and your hopes that you can get the continent vaccinated, the former british prime minister gordon brown has been very vocal in support of

africa and criticized western powers. a big farmer over the attitude and promised to supply africa in a national british newspaper. back in mid august. he said that we did not just western governments, but big fathers have failed africa. where do you expect to get your supplies when you have a country like germany, reluctant to allow local pharmaceutical companies in africa to produce coven 19 vaccine? i think, as i said earlier, that can, is improving the african vaccine position test team. i secured 4000000 doses of bucks ins, and that is the reality and the distribution has started. you know, you now know that 5 sign agreements with the about from us that you got companies in south africa. and i think that is very encouraging. you know that,

that partnership developing we've sent in the past day institute incentive got to give it up backs. and so we have a very, very encourage bed that may not be timely enough to address the challenge. and the urgency that we have on hand. so you're absolutely right that we may be challenged tv challenge for a couple of months before we really see the appropriate inflow of scenes on the continent. do you think you'll be challenged even more europe heads towards winter and be those some countries talking about booster shots when many people across africa haven't even had one shot that is pushing sufficient. i'm not fully agree with that. we're head organization with dr. general for a suspension in administering both on to most of the work is that i think that is not in the hands yet that use for these

boston or need for both the day. i think we had not seen that. if anyone sees that, i'm not, i'll be happy to, to read that. i think it will be unfortunate that the vast majority of the world continues to lack behind in vaccines. and then people are talking about doing a post that if it will be a tread for everybody. because by doing what we kind of behavior will only provoke encourage the emergence of new variance that who knows mich a challenge even exist in vaccines. that variable in our to get to fight it into work. africa has many eminent scientists. it has many entrepreneurs among wonders why africa hasn't found its own vaccine. when countries like iran, cuba managed to develop their own and are managing to inoculate the publics as much

as they possibly can. i mean that, that is a very important question. i think it is fair to say that africa has neglected the competence of her system. and completely at the we import as we speak today and port import it 99 percent of our backs in the only manufacture one percent of boxes. and at the same time, the country and consumes about 25 percent of a global supply assume haven't set that. i think there's always time to begin. many countries in africa have now mobilized, they've taken the journey of producing vaccines like nigeria, synagogue, rwanda, south africa, egypt, broker. so i remain optimistic that you're absolutely right that, that they've been neglected. shouldn't have been neglected. they are 3. it's has security commodities that people must have in order to guarantee and they've got

security. they include the ability to produce diagnostics and the ability to produce, to protect and the ability to produce adoption. so africa has to engage in all 3 pathways to guarantee to have security response ation green for that's what we are calling in new probably had order for the continent and new probably had ordered us see that we need to take all of our future and produce about 60 percent of the scenes that we need. but in the next 20 years, china has gone down better out thailand and many other countries. there's absolutely no reason why africa, she didn't go down that route and the african see to see. and the african union has developed that way and that vision for the continental embrace and walk that journey. and just finally, i think dr. you certainly have a great deal of hope for the continent. 10 for its potential. the g 7 are meeting later in september to discuss where cov, it stands right now, globally, with

a pandemic, is and what they can do to try and curtail it. what sort of this will africa habit that g 7 meeting these countries that you mentioned, the united states, france gemini, at, or countries that africa has, has enjoyed good relationships with. and this should serve as a voice to echoed africa. what do we need to in the next 5 years? we need our $30000000000.00 to fully vaccinate their content and we are not going to get rid of this covered $9000.00 in the next next year. we're not going to get rid of could be seen at a pace in 2023. so we'd need to actually sit down and develop it 5 years. probe a 4 to 5 year program that in my view because at least 30 below. and that's what that g 7 you'd be looking at. how do we structure funding that would release about $30000000000.00 over the next 5 years to that africa can get rid of this could be from the country to let's see if they do that. dr. john and kanga song director for

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