Africa: Macron Confirms Donation of Covid Vaccines to Africa in Tweet to U.S. Pop Star

President Emmanuel Macron has confirmed France's commitment to the global equitable vaccine initiative Covax, in a social media exchange with pop singer Selena Gomez. Macron last week pledged to send half a million Covid-19 doses to African countries by mid-June, becoming the first nation to donate to the programme from its domestic supply.

On Friday, Macron announced that France would give at least 500,000 doses of various Covid-19 vaccines to Africa via Covax, short for Covid-19 Vaccines Global Access, an alliance working to deliver vaccines from high-income countries to the rest of the world.

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