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 »Talks begin on SA and India bid for Covid patent ban
Member states of the World Trade Organisation will on Wednesday begin talks on a joint proposal by India and South Africa to suspend patents on coronavirus vaccines to increase production. It’s supported by more than 100 developing countries, many of whom have not yet made a meaningful start to their …
Read More »Nigeria to begin covid-19 vaccination campaign
In Abuja, the Capital of Nigeria, a mass vacination campaign against the coronavirus pandemic is launched. The country will use Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccines acquired through Covax, a UN-backed initiative to ensure poorer nations acquire the doses. According to the head of the country’s Healthcare Development Agency, health workers will be the …
Read More »Vaccination campaign to start March 2 in Ghana
Ghana will begin its vaccination programm on March 2 with the 600,000 COVAX vaccines delivered to the country on Wednesday, February 24. The Ghanean minister of information Kojo Oppong Nkrumah issued a press statement yesterday, telling exactly how this would be done and those who would be taking the jabs …
Read More »Senegal begins vaccination campaign against covid-19
Authorities in Senegal announced fighting misinformation over covid-19 vaccines and launched a vaccinaton campaign this Tuesday. In order to serve as an example and reassure the public on the safety of the vaccines, Senegal’s Health Minister Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr was first in line to be vaccinated. The country in fact …
Read More »Cameroon: three students ‘injured in fake-vaccine stampede’
As reported by The Guardian Post, three students were injured in Cameroon’s South-West region after a stampede broke out following a rumoured Covid-19 vaccination campaign. The students from the city of Kumba are currently being observed by medics, the newspaper adds. “The injuries were recorded in the wake of a …
Read More »The plane carrying ebola vaccines finally landed in Guinea
A special plane carrying a consignment of Ebola vaccine landed in Guinea on Monday night. The vaccination roll-out which was to begin on Monday has been postponed due to bad weather conditions. In fact, a dust storm in the Sahara on Sunday had forced the aircraft off course and diverted …
Read More »The vaccination campaign against Ebola postponed in Guinea
Guinean health authorities have postponed an Ebola vaccination roll out that was to begin on Monday due to bad weather. The plane carrying 11,000 World Health Organization vaccines was unable to land at the Conakry-Gebessia International Airport on Sunday because of bad weather conditions. On Facebook, Guinea’s health ministry said …
Read More »Emmanuel Macron urged Europe to share vaccine with Africa
Emmanuel Macron the French president said that Europe and the United States should urgently allocate 3% to 5% of their coronavirus vaccine supplies to developing countries where vaccination campaigns have scarcely begun. In an interview granted to the UK-based Financial Times newspaper, he said some African nations were having to …
Read More »United Nations condemns killing of polio workers in South Sudan
The United Nations Mission in South Sudan has condemned the attack by armed men on polio workers in Lakes State in the central part of the country. The attack in Malek area on Sunday left three people dead, four others wounded and one missing, according to a press statement. The …
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