The President of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Commission, Jean-Claude Kassi Brou has expressed optimism that the coordination of efforts among member states to ensure citizens get access to the COVID-19 Vaccine will inure to the benefit of all.

His Excellency Brou was speaking in a post-opening ceremony of the 2021 First Extraordinary Session of the ECOWAS Parliament in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on Monday.

When asked about what has the Commission been doing to ensure the availability and safety of the COVID-19 vaccine for the people in the sub-region, H.E. Brou also commended the activities of three Coordinating Committees particularly on health, with all the fifteen Health Ministers meeting with the Director-General of West African Health Organisation (WAHO) to ensure the response to the virus and accompanying vaccine is apt