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Tanzania’s President John Magufuli is in the country and working hard in his office, his prime minister has said, scotching rumours about his whereabouts and health. “Tanzanians be calm, your president is there, in good health, he is working,” Prime Minister Kassim Majaliwa said. There has been speculation that President …

Thailand has suddenly delayed the launch of its vaccination campaign with AstraZeneca amid fears of the vaccine over blood clots. The vaccination campaign with the Oxford / AstraZeneca was due to start this Friday, Prime Minister Prayut Chan-O-Cha being the first to receive this product under the watch of the …

After the English, South African or even Californian variants, will the Covid-19 take the name of French regions? As the daily Le Télégramme explained on Wednesday, a new mutation of Sars-CoV-2 was identified in Lannion but also in Guingamp, in the Côtes-d’Armor department in France. This new Breton variant was …

A second wave of Covid-19 is ripping through Brazil, pushing hospitals and ICUs toward collapse and claiming record numbers of daily deaths. While a new variant of the coronavirus spreads throughout the country, many Brazilians continue to defy mask mandates mobility restrictions following the example of President Jair Bolsonaro, who …

Ivorian Prime Minister Hamed Bakayoko is no longer. He died on Wednesday March 10, 2021, after two weeks of hospitalization abroad, according to LSi Africa. Emergency evacuated in France on February 18, 2021 for medical examinations, then transferred to Germany this week to continue his medical treatment, the Ivorian prime …

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 …

Rescuers have retrieved 12 bodies of children who drowned near a popular beach in southern Ghana. They were part of a group aged between 14 and 17 who had gone for a swimming outing on Sunday at Apam town. Parents and locals have gathered at the shore to wait for …

While vaccination against Covid-19 should begin on March 10 in Togo, a study already shows that the first dose of the vaccine “AstraZeneca” provides 30 to 50% protection against the virus. Very effective against severe forms of the Coronavirus, according to recently published studies, it is carried out in two …

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman approved a range of initiatives aimed at assisting firms and individuals operating in support of Islamic pilgrimages, Saudi state news agency SPA said late on Monday. The initiatives are aimed at mitigating the financial and economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic across the sector that provides …

The developers of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 on Tuesday questioned the neutrality of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) after an EMA official urged EU members to refrain from approving the Russian vaccine for now. Christa Wirthumer-Hoche, the head of EMA’s management board, told a talk show on Austrian …