Risks are moral catastrophe of covert vaccinations are delayed in Africa while wealthier regions inoculate their entire populations, the head of the continent's disease control body has said.

John and Pengassan told reporters that the Africa Centers for Disease Control hopes that significant vaccination programs will begin across Africa in April.

But he warned that it's a long way to go, especially as quote the second wave is here with a vengeance.

According Toa Africa CDC data coronavirus cases increased by nearly 19% last week.

Deaths were up 26%.

Africa has recorded 2.7 million infections and 64,000 deaths as off Thursday, and South Africa, where a new variants of the virus has been detected, recorded 82,000 cases in the past week.

That's why in Kenya, Song says there could be no delay in acquiring vaccines, He said.

The major barriers to that our global availability of doses on financing, adding that wealthy nations have already acquired vaccines in excess of what they need.

But the African Union is in talks with the European Union, Canada and pharmaceutical companies to secure doses in Kenya, Song said.

That's in addition to what the continent has been promised under the Kovacs program, the World Health Organization scheme to deliver vaccines to poorer countries.