South Africa is set to receive a much-needed donation of 5.66 million doses of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine from the US government.
White House officials told Reuters that nearly 10 million doses will be shipped to Nigeria and South Africa this week, as they were two of the most populous counties on the continent.
A senior US government official told Business Day that half of the doses would arrive on Saturday and the other half at the beginning of August.
According to the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, the continent has so far only administered around 61 million jabs to its population of over 1.3 billion people.