The former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the co-chair of a panel reviewing the world’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, has expressed her disappointment at the way rich countries are monopolising supplies of Covid-19’s vaccines. She told an online briefing of the World Health Organization that vaccine rollout in poorer …
Read More »Tedros Adhanom warns of ‘moral failure’ in vaccine distribution
The head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) has said the world is on the verge of what he called a catastrophic moral failure over the way Covid-19 vaccines are being shared out to global populations. Speaking at the WHO’s executive board meeting, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said many wealthy …
Read More »African Union Obtains 270 Million Coronavirus Vaccines
“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 …
Read More »Will a global supply of Ebola vaccine be beneficial?
The vaccine alliance Gavi orders 500 doses of Ebola vaccine in order to have a stock to deal with a new wave of the disease. More than 300 000 people in the Democratic Republic of Congo and in the neighboring countries received a dose of the Ebola vaccine, Ervebo, developped …
Read More »Health: a virus deadlier than covid-19 could surprise the world
The World Health Organization has warned that the coronavirus pandemic was “not necessarily the most serious” and that a more mortal could sweep the world. Dr Mike Ryan, World Health Organization Program Manager, declared this Tuesday that the pandemic was just a ‘‘wake-up call’’. “This pandemic was very serious… it …
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