Fiscal Impact, Vaccines Financing & Civic Norms

The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the death of many and disrupted the lives of people worldwide. What started from Wuhan City, Hubei Province of China transmitted worldwide in less than four months.

The first case of COVID-19 in Africa was first confirmed in Egypt on 14th February 2020, while the first confirmed case in sub-Saharan Africa was first announced in Nigeria by the end of the same month. In the space of two weeks, over 50 countries confirmed and reported their first case, making the virus the biggest one of the century.

Speculations increased as figures from China, followed by Italy, Spain, and the USA, showed how fatal the virus is despite their advanced health system. With a population slightly above 1 billion and designated to have the worst healthcare system globally, the world feared that Africa would not cope very well when the virus hit the continent, considering dierent predictions about possible worst case scenarios. A report by the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) predicted up to 3.3 million deaths and 1.2 billion infections in Africa