The regional office of the World Health Organization (WHO) in Africa has warned of appearing a new epicenter of the Coronavirus (named also as COVID-19) due to the slowing in vaccination against the deadly virus compared with the rest of the continents across the planet.
The regional office issued a statement on Friday that said the new epicenter of COVID-19 is related to the delaying of delivering doses of the anti-Corona vaccines made in the Serum Institute in India, appearing of new variants of the virus.
The statement unveiled that Africa had only 1% of the doses of the vaccines compared with 2% weeks ago.
The African continent received less than 50% of the doses which estimated at 37 million doses.
The first shipments have been delivered in 41 African countries by the COVAX program sponsored by the United Nations (UN) and a number of charity groups since March.
But nine African nations released a quarter of doses that they received and another fifteen nations gave less than a half of what they received to their citizens.
The WHO said that the COVID-19 continues thwarting the basic health services in 90% of countries around the world.
The UN organization warns that the second survey, it has conducted by its experts in various parts of the planet, revealed that 90% of the countries reported on breaking one or more of the basic health services after one year of the spreading of the deadly virus.
A report published on April 23 by the organization pointed out that despite the reduction of volume and dimension of disorders inside the countries in the summer of 2020, those countries indicated that an improvement took place in the three first months of 2021 as about a third of the basic health service were stopped only.
The organization assured that more than the countries that were consulted said that they appointed more additional health staffers to sustain the workforce in the public health sector and direct patients to other health facilities to receive treatment.
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