Now on bbc news, its time for hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk with me, zeinab badawi. If covid 19 were to spread right across africa, it could be a human catastrophe. Many feared that the continent is simply not ready to cope with the crisis. Its Health Systems are already under strain and could buckle underfurther pressure. My guest is ngozi okonjo iweala. She is a special covid 19 envoy for the African Union as well as being chair of gavi the Global Alliance on vaccines and immunisations. As the world races to find a vaccine, what is she doing to ensure that lower Income Countries are not forgotten . Thank you, zeinab. So, in april the World Health Organization was warning that within 3 6 months there could be 10 million covid 19 cases on the continent. We are now roughly at around 700,000 cases, nearly 15,000 deaths, it looks like an extreme exaggeration. The experts cant get it right, can they . Well, zeinab, we just dont know. According to the africa cdc in addis, the cases are acce