By XINHUA Egypt has received the first batch of the raw materials to manufacture China’s Sinovac vaccine, said the Chinese embassy in Egypt on Sunday. Along with the Sinovac raw materials, a new shipment of China’s Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines also arrived at the Cairo International Airport on Friday, according to a Chinese embassy’s statement. Egyptian Health…
By CGTN Africa So far Africa has administered just over 25 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccines which are about 1.5 percent of the doses given worldwide, head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said on Saturday. “And this is tragic,” Tedros said at a meeting of the Peace and Security Council of the African…
By XINHUA Figures show that South Africa’s Western Cape Province, which hosts the legislative capital Cape Town, is moving toward the third wave of COVID-19, a provincial official said on Sunday. The province located in the southwest end of the nation is currently facing a resurgence of the pandemic as it has seen increases in case…
By XINHUA Ethiopia has registered 381 new COVID-19 cases, taking the nationwide tally to 268,901 as of Saturday evening, according to the country’s Ministry of Health. The ministry said eight new deaths were reported, bringing the death toll to 4,068. The East African country reported 1,600 more recoveries, taking the national count to 227,080. Ethiopia, Africa’s…
By Grace Kuria Zimbabwe’s Vice President and Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga on Wednesday confirmed that the COVID-19 Indian variant has been detected in Kwekwe. “The nation is therefore advised that this variant B.1.617 is now in Zimbabwe.” Chiwenga said. This following genomic sequencing test that were carried out on samples collected from a reported focalized outbreak…
ساجد النوري أعلنت الدكتورة رشا قلج، عضو مجلس الشيوخ المصري، ورئيس مؤسسة ميرك الدولية الخيرية توصيات أعمال مؤتمر القمع الثامن لمؤسسة ميرك الخيرية التي عُقدت خلال الأيام الماضية بالشراكة مع حكومة جمهورية زامبيا، حيث تم عقد المؤتمر على منصة افتراضية، وافتتحه “إدغار شاغوا لونغو”، رئيس زامبيا مع البروفيسور الدكتور “فرانك ستانجينبيرج هافركامب”، رئيس ومالك شركة…
By AP Malawi has burned nearly 20,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines because they had expired. The government incinerated 19,610 doses of the vaccine at Kamuzu Central Hospital in the capital Lilongwe on Wednesday morning. The vaccines were the remainder of 102,000 doses that arrived in Malawi on March 26 with just 18 days until they expired…
By CGTN Africa Sudan on Tuesday began restricting travellers arriving from India to enter the country and will impose new coronavirus restrictions. “Entry will be prevented for all travellers arriving directly from India or through any other country after having visited India in the past 14 days,” said the country’s ruling council in a statement. Travellers from…
By XINHUA The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Wednesday it has received nearly 900,000 U.S. dollar grant to improve the cold chain management of COVID-19 vaccines in Somalia. The UN agency said in a statement issued in Mogadishu that the funding from the Japanese government will support the procurement of cold chain equipment in 33…
By CGTN Africa Kenya Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe says the country’s COVID-19 vaccination effort has hit a stall with zero new jabs administered over the past three days. Kagwe’s announcement, made in a statement released on Tuesday, comes a week after it was learned Kenya is running out of COVID-19 doses received in early March through the…
