The African Union and its Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) are telling the continent's finance ministers that they have 15 million covid-19 vaccines ready for distribution.

According to the Bloomberg financial news agency, which cites the document sent to African health ministers, the Africa CDC said the shipment of vaccines will be distributed from the Covax vaccine sharing mechanism and consist of 5 million single doses from Johnson & Johnson and another 10 million from Pfizer.

The distribution by country will be announced at the end of next week, the communication to governments adds.

The doses donated and now announced are part of the batch of 80 million that the President of the United States of America (USA) said in June that he would share with various countries, and comes after several criticisms from the poorest nations in Africa regarding inequality in the vaccination process.

While in some parts of the world, such as the US or the UK, more than half of the population is already fully vaccinated, in Africa the percentage of vaccinated people is little more than 1%, in a continent that has 1.2 billion inhabitants.

According to the African Union and Africa CDC told the health ministers, there are more vaccines that may soon be available.