In order to help Mozambique respond to the Covid-19 pandemic, a group of 39 Cuban intensive care health experts have been received in the country. On Tuesday, the doctors and nurses joined another group of 14 healthcare workers who had arrived in the country in January. Read also: Activist jailed …
Read More »EU puts brake on COVID vaccine exports to cope with ‘crisis of the century’
The European Union may get more restrictive in exporting COVID-19 vaccines to safeguard essential jabs for its own citizens facing a third wave of the pandemic, the head of the bloc’s executive said on Wednesday. Ursula von der Leyen’s announcement risks escalating tensions with the United Kingdom and the Unites …
Read More »Somalia starts first inoculations with AstraZeneca
Somalia started administering COVID-19 vaccinations Tuesday. In order to reassure the nation about its safety and efficiency, the health minister was the first to receive the jab. The country which has recently experienced a surge of cases, on Monday received its first shipment of 300,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine …
Read More »Zimbabwe receives second batch of Sinopharm vaccine
Zimbabwe on Tuesday received a second batch of Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines. It includes a Chinese donation of 200,000 doses and 144,000 doses bought by the government, and comes four weeks after the arrival of the first batch, BBC News reports. President Emmerson Mnangagwa was at the airport in the capital, …
Read More »Africa seeks ‘continental capacity’ to produce vaccines
According to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the continent will need a ”continental capacity” to produce covid-19 vaccines. As the continent tries to vaccinate more of its 1.3 billion people, Director of the Africa’s CDC says five African nations appear to have the capacity to produce vaccines. …
Read More »Vaccination campaign against covid-19 to start in Uganda
Ugandan Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng receives a COVID-19 vaccine injection as the first person in the country’s inoculation campaign. Healthcare workers have received the AstraZeneca jabs as part of a phased rollout. Uganda launched its mass COVID-19 vaccination program on Wednesday, joining a host of countries in Africa to …
Read More »Muhammadu Buhari urges Nigerians to be vaccinated
After being immunized against the coronavirus pandemic on Saturday, Muhammadu Buhari the Nigerian president urged all “eligible Nigerian” to be vaccinated against the virus as soon as possible. At a media event in Abuja, Buhari himself was earlier vaccinated using the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, manufactured by the Serum Institute of …
Read More »Canada approves Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine
Canada’s drug regulator has approved Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine, the fourth such shot to be given the green light, Ottawa said on Friday, amid frustration over the slow pace of inoculations. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said: “the last year hasn’t been easy, but we are going to get through …
Read More »Catholic Church in Kenya rebuffs opposition to vaccine
The Catholic Church in Kenya has voiced its support for the Covid-19 vaccine after the country received more than a million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine. The church also dismissed an advisory issued by a group of Catholic doctors in the country, who had termed Covid-19 vaccinations as unnecessary. “Pope …
Read More »EU to extend COVID vaccine export controls to end of June
The European Union is planning to extend its export authorisation scheme for COVID-19 vaccines to the end of June, two EU sources told Reuters on Thursday, in a move that could reignite tensions with countries who rely on shots made in the EU. The mechanism was set up at the …
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