As rich nations acquire the vaccine there has been a fear that developing nations will be left behind. In a bit of good news, we have learnt that Africa has a plan to acquire 270 million vaccine doses from India through African Vaccine Acquisition Task team (Avatt). This was revealed by the African Union’s chairman Cyril Ramaphosa. Of these 270 million, we learnt that Zimbabwe was going to get about 3 million doses but how are the rest going to be divided? Well, division will be based on population size.

Country	Pro-rata allocation	Cost in USD
Algeria	8 849 281	60 244 272
Angola	6 541 486	44 518 450
Benin	2 425 651	16 507 905
Botswana	473 510	3 222 500
Burkina Faso	4 176 930	28 426 327
Burundi	2 370 037	16 129 420
Cabo Verde	113 036	769 270
Cameroon	5,318,725	36,196,878
Central African Republic	975,343	6,637,748
Chad	3,277,779	22,307,105
Comoros	174,894	1,190,252
Congo	1,105,929	7,526,462
Côte d’Ivoire	5,285,872	35,973,293
Democratic Republic of the Congo	17,839,248	121,405,991
Djibouti	200,109	1,361,853
Egypt	20,634,128	140,426,707
Equatorial Guinea	278,714	1,896,805
Eritrea	660,611	4,495,828
Eswatini	235,991	1,606,049
Ethiopia	23,037,068	156,780,048
Gabon	446,560	3,039,087
Gambia	482,556	3,284,062
Ghana	6,252,196	42,549,670
Guinea	2,625,0481	7,864,911
Guinea-Bissau	394,833	2,687,060
Kenya	10,806,245	73,542,500
Lesotho	436,835	2,972,907
Liberia	1,014,846	6,906,589
Libya	1,393,062	9,480,561
Madagascar	5,543,369	37,725,706
Malawi	3,829,020	26,058,609
Mali	4,040,583	27,498,412
Mauritania	930,228	6,330,718
Mauritius	260,159	1,770,525
Morocco	7,496,540	51,018,116
Mozambique	6,241,545	42,477,182
Namibia	512,735	3,489,445
Niger	4,791,3693	2,607,927
Nigeria	41,306,786	281,115,630
Rwanda	2,595,389	17,663,064
Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic	31,859	216,820
Sao Tome and Principe	44,203	300,829
Senegal	3,349,6142	2,795,982
Seychelles	20,066	136,562
Sierra Leone	1,605,957	10,929,426
Somalia	3,174,191	21,602,131
South Africa	12,036,279	81,913,566
South Sudan	2,273,747	15,474,110
Sudan	8,799,988	59,888,808
Togo	1,661,279	11,305,925
Tunisia	2,403,775	16,359,024
Uganda	9,099,333	61,926,015
Tanzania	11,922,653	81,140,278
Zambia	3,671,221	24,984,697
*Zimbabwe*	*3,010,283*	*20,486,645*
CARICOM States	1,521,307	10,353,340
All Africa + CARICOM Total	270,000,000	1,837,500,000