evidence: Africa needs around 470 million doses to accomplish the global of fully vaccinating 40 per cent of its population by the end of the year, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. [...] WHO Regional Director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti, said that "export bans and vaccine hoarding have a chokehold on vaccine supplies to Africa." [...] WHO is ramping up support to African countries to identify and address gaps in their COVID-19 vaccine rollouts.