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The United States Medicines Agency on Wednesday authorized Novavax’s Covid-19 vaccine for adults 18 and older, providing an additional option for getting vaccinated in the United States, in hopes of helping to convince the reluctant. The vaccine produced by this American company is already available in dozens of other countries. …

Authorities in Tanzania are investigating a mysterious illness in the south of the country that has killed three people, the BBC reported. In total 13 cases have been reported in Lindi region, with patients having symptoms similar to Ebola or Marburg. They have been experiencing fever, severe headaches, fatigue and …

Health authorities in Ghana reported two cases of Marburg virus, a highly contagious disease from the same family as the virus that causes Ebola. Preliminary tests carried out on two patients, who have since died, came back positive after the samples were transported to the Pasteur Institute in Senegal for …

The African Union is launching an electronic vaccine passport to facilitate movement of people vaccinated against Covid-19 in and out of Africa. The passport will be in digital format. A QR code will be scanned to show proof that one has been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 and has a valid …

Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said it signed a memorandum of understanding with Pfizer for countries on the continent to receive supplies of the Paxlovid pill to treat COVID-19. Acting director of the Africa CDC, Ahmed Ogwell Ouma said the MOU would allow African countries to …

The World Health Organization (WHO) said laboratories around the world confirmed 5,322 cases of monkeypox, an increase of more than 50% from the previous assessment on June 22. “WHO continues to ask countries to pay particular attention to cases of monkeypox, to try to limit contamination,” Fadela Chaib told a …

Chinese authorities placed 1.7 million people in lockdown in eastern Anhui province after a record 300 new Covid cases on Monday. The renewed epidemic in Anhui comes at a time when the Chinese economy is slowly recovering from the containment of Shanghai, lifted in early July after several months. China …

The World Health Organization (WHO) is procuring thousands of monkeypox tests for Africa and working to ensure Africa has equitable access to vaccines when needed, the WHO director for Africa, Matshidiso Moeti. Dr Moeti said eight countries in Africa including Nigeria, Cameroon and Democratic Republic of Congo where it is …

The World Health Organization (WHO) is working with experts to come up with a new name for monkeypox, its director general , Dr Tedros Adhanom Gebreyesus, said. It comes after more than 30 scientists wrote last week about the “urgent need for a non-discriminatory and non-stigmatising” name for the virus …

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) announced that the country is experiencing a resurgence of COVID-19, as 62 new cases have been detected, most of them from the Greater Accra region. GHS Director of Public Health, Dr Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe said the cases had been recorded in the past two weeks, adding …