Coronavirus

Health authorities in Cameroon have postponed the rollout of the third Covid-19 vaccination campaign which had been scheduled to run from Wednesday until 31 October. Dr Manaouda Malachie, the minister of public health has announced that the campaign will begin on 17 November and 400,000 doses of vaccines are expected …

The German firm, BioNTech, has signed deals with Rwanda and Senegal to build Africa’s first vaccine manufacturing facility based on mRNA technology. BioNTech, which with Pfizer created one of the world’s most widely used Covid-19 vaccines, says the plant will have an initial capacity to produce 50 million doses annually. …

Chinese authorities on Tuesday imposed confinement in Lanzhou in the northwest of the country, a city of four million inhabitants in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The decision was motivated because of a rebound in Covid-19 cases a hundred days before the Beijing Winter Olympics. The country …

The African Union has announced that it intends to purchase up to 110m doses of the Moderna ARN vaccines in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic on the continent. Moderna is prepared to deliver the first 15 million doses to Africa later this year as part of …

The mayor of Moscow has decided that unvaccinated residents over the age of 60 stay at home from this Monday and for the next 120 days as the country is hit hard by a new wave of Covid-19 – Sunday. The mayor of the Russian capital has decreed the re-confinement …

The World Health Organization (WHO) says more than 100,000 health workers have died since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, and that millions are still unvaccinated. WHO head Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus called the situation an indictment of the countries and companies that controlled global supply, and said members of the …

Military leaders in Guinea have eased Covid-19 restrictions, including ending a night curfew and suspending a requirement for prior authorisation to transport bodies outside the capital, Conakry. The military junta, the National Rally and Development Committee (CNRD), on Twitter posted : “The curfew is lifted; advance requests for authorisation to …

According to data from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Uganda is the only country on the African continent where schools remain completely closed for almost two years despite a low rate of infections and deaths from Covid- 19. Data from the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) tracks the impact …

Armed robbers on Tuesday evening raided an electronic shop in Rukungiri municipality, Rukungiri District and shot a teen dead before injuring an unarmed guard as they fled with Shs50 million and unspecified number of mobile phones, Ugandan DailyMonitor reports. The police spokesman for Kigezi region, Mr Elly Maate said the raid …

Ugandan health ministry officials who have not been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 have been prevented from accessing the ministry’s premises, authorities said. In a statement dated October 18, the Director General of Health Services, Dr Henry Mwebesa, said the decision was taken at a special meeting with the aim of …