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The Zimbabwean president Emmerson Mnangagwa announced that the country will receive about 10 million doses of covid-vaccine from China, in order to fight the pandemic. President Mnangagwa says Beijing has now pledged four million doses of Sinopharm and six million of Sinovac, in addition to the two million doses received …

Ghanean authoritiies received the first batch of Covid-19 vaccine doses distributed by the global vaccine sharing initiative, Covax. According to the World Health Organization (WHO) and Unicef, a plane carrying 600,000 doses of the of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine landed in Accra, the capital on Wednesday. “These 600,000 Covax vaccines are …

Tanzania’s President John Magufuli has warned health officials against acquiring Covid-19 vaccines saying without giving evidence that they could harm the population. “The ministry of health should be careful, they should not hurry to try these vaccines without doing research, not every vaccine is important to us, we should be …

Like other countries, Nigeria announces its own vaccine to fight against the coronavirus pandemic. It announces on Monday a project of 10 Billion Naira( $ 25,3m) to support the national production of vaccine in order to fight against the coronavirus pandemic throughout the territory. During a press conference in Abuja …

Osagie Ehanire, the Nigerian Minister of Health said that the country has requested 10 million Covid-19 vaccine doses from the African Union (AU) which has secured millions of doses on behalf of African countries. We did not yet know which of the Covid-19 vaccines Nigeria will get, but the authorities …

Russia has just began vaccination and it began with the category of people the most affected by the virus or the most exposed to the virus since the early December. A mass vaccination campaign is planned from next week. Russians who are more than 18 years old could be vaccinated …

“The African Union obtained 270 million vaccines against Covid-19 for the continent” said the South African President Cyril Ramaphosa“We have gone a step further to obtain vaccines independently using our own limited resources.” The vaccines, of which at least 50 million will be available between April and June, will be …