Nigeria, June 10 -- The World Health Organisation (WHO) has said about 47 African countries, amounting to more than 90 per cent of the 54-nation continent, will miss the September, 2021, target for the vaccination of 10 per cent of their total population.

The global body, which noted that the new targets were announced recently at the World Health Assembly- the world's highest health policy-setting body, said as of June 10, only 9.4 million of the continent's about 1.3 billion people have been successfully vaccinated.

According to a statement issued by the global health organisation, speaking on Thursday at a media briefing facilitated by APO Group, a Pan-African communications consultancy firm, the WHO's regional director for Africa, M...