john nkengasong. >> dr. john nkengasong thank you so much for joining us.ould briefly just give us a sense continent wide, how is the pandemic going in africa right now? >> unfortunately, we are not winning the war against this pandemic in africa. as we speak, at least 32 countries are going through a very severe third wave and about four or five other countries are actually witnessing a fourth wave. and the background of this is that we have very limited vaccines that have been introduced on the continent. a population of 1.2 biion people have only seen about 3% of the population fully vaccinated, which is unfortunate if we imagine that our goal was to at least vaccinate up to 60 % by next year. it's a very unfortunate situation we are witssing in africa. [00:02:52][50.1] -- in africa. >> i would love to talk about the vaccines in a moment. before then, though, is it your sense that the delta variant is the primary variant of the virus across africa now? >> it is. as we speak, over 30 something countries have now reported the delta variant and africa as a