The African Union's disease control agency confirmed that vacicne Covid-19 AstraZeneca was not abandoned, although the effect was significantly reduced with the South African nCoV strain.

African Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) director John Nkengasong said today that more action is needed to learn how the vaccine against the super-infectious nCoV variant was discovered at Nam Phi by the end of 2020.

South Africa stopped injecting AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine to health workers on Feb. 10 due to ineffective use of a strain called 501Y.V2, which said it could find a way to sell or exchange one vaccine for another.

African countries will receive 100 million doses of AstraZeneca's Covid-19 vaccine this year under the African Union plan.

Outside of South Africa, six other African countries, Botswana, Comoros, Ghana, Kenya, Mozambique and Zambia, reported a 501Y.V2 infection, Nkengasong said.

"For countries that have not yet detected the 501Y.V2 strain, we recommend that they deploy the AstraZeneca vaccine," said Nkengasong.

Nkengasong said CDC Africa will self-assess the AstraZeneca vaccine in many countries, and said that no country has announced the refusal to use the product.

Covid-19 broke out in December 2019, appeared in 219 countries and territories with nearly 108 million cases, more than 2.3 million deaths and nearly 80 million people recovered.