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Ghana, the first country to receive COVAX vaccines last month, began its mass vaccination drive on Tuesday. 600,000 doses of Oxford/Astrazeneca vaccines are being given to frontline health workers, security personnel, people aged over 60 and those with pre-existing conditions. To ensure that Ghanaians are convinced to get jabbed, President …

Research by South African scientists suggests that antibodies triggered by exposure to the country’s dominant coronavirus variant can prevent infection by other variants, the scientists said on Wednesday. The findings in laboratory studies offer hope that COVID-19 vaccines based on the 501Y.V2 variant first identified late last year could protect …

More African countries have received their first batches of the coronavirus vaccines under the global Covax scheme. Kenya received more than a million doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine on Wednesday, becoming the third East African country to benefit from the UN-backed distribution initiative. The doses are enough to vaccinate 500,000 …

By way of the COVAX initiative, more than 1.7 million doses of COVID-19 AstraZeneca vaccines touched down at Kinshasa’s N’djili International Airport on Tuesday The vaccines in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are part of the first wave of supplies that will continue over the next few weeks. Medical …

Texas will lift its mask requirement and allow businesses to reopen at full capacity next week, Governor Greg Abbott has announced. Texas is the largest US state to end its mask mandate. Mr Abbott has faced criticism from his party over the measure, which was imposed last July. But the …

The new vice-president of Tanzania’s semi-autonomous islands of Zanzibar has been sworn in less than two weeks after his predecessor died. Othman Masoud Othman Sharif replaces Seif Sharif Hamad who died on February 17 at the age of 77. No official reason has been given for his death but it …

The South Sudanese military has announced the death of three generals who died after becoming ill with Covid-19. The three Generals are identified as David Manyot Barach, Elijah Alier Ayom and Mabior Maket. According to the military, burials would be organised by a committee in collaboration with the families of …

Nana Akufo-Addo, the president of Ghana has become the world’s first recipient of the coronavirus vaccine from Covax, a scheme to procure and distribute inoculations for poorer countries. A wider Covax program will begin in Ghana on Tuesday but health workers in Ivory Coast are being vaccinated on Monday. The …

Ivory Coast has become the second country after Ghana to receive coronavirus jabs as part of the global vaccine-sharing programme Covax. Half a million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine were delivered from a plant in India. Ivorian Health Minister Eugene Aka Aouélé welcomed their arrival, saying the fight against the …

According to Kenyan health authorities, the country will receive its first batch of Covid-19 vaccines next week. Frontline health workers, security officers, teachers and vulnerable groups will be vaccinated first. The government has not detailed which particular vaccine it is acquiring. The health ministry had early this month said it …