{"id":81619,"date":"2021-09-10T13:43:57","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T13:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theoutlier.co.za\/?p=81619"},"modified":"2025-11-17T17:44:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T17:44:11","slug":"36-african-countries-have-received-donations-from-the-us-since-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/2021\/09\/10\/36-african-countries-have-received-donations-from-the-us-since-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Quick take: Africa doubles Covid-19 vaccines with donations from US"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Before the United States began its vaccine deliveries to the African continent, Covax had delivered 25.9 million vaccine doses between February and June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since July, the US has doubled this number, donating almost 30-million vaccines to two-thirds of the continent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-600-wide size\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theoutlier.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/US-donations-v2-600x600.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81625\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>After delays in Covax deliveries to African countries, the African Union stepped in with its African Vaccine Acquisition Trust, which purchased vaccines from Johnson &amp; Johnson on behalf of member states.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-600-wide size\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/theoutlier.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/AVAT-Purchases-600x600.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-81621\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information on Covax deliveries to Africa, please read our explainer here: <a href=\"https:\/\/theoutlier.co.za\/covid-19\/81393\/covax-in-africa-which-vaccines-are-countries-getting-and-how-much\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Covax in Africa: which vaccines are countries getting, and how much?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>36 African countries have received donations from the US since July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":81622,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,446,1387],"tags":[21,22,23,24],"newsletter-post":[],"site":[],"class_list":["post-81619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","category-news","category-the-outlier","tag-africa","tag-covax","tag-covid-19","tag-vaccines"],"acf":{"big_number":null,"big_number_caption":null,"big_number_link":null,"big_number_background":null,"big_number_text_colour":null,"big_number_icon":null,"big_number_wide":null,"featured_chart":null,"flourish_chart_id":null,"flourish_sub_title":null,"flourish_chart_width":null,"is_newsletter_post":null,"post_style":null,"show_on_front":null,"link_through":null,"chart_url":null,"background_colour":null,"text_colour":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86656,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81619\/revisions\/86656"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81619"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter-post","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter-post?post=81619"},{"taxonomy":"site","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outliereditor.co.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/site?post=81619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}