By Grace Kuria World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has termed the situation in India as ‘beyond heartbreaking’. “WHO is doing everything we can, providing critical equipment and supplies, including thousands of oxygen concentrators, prefabricated mobile field hospitals and laboratory supplies,” The Director General said. Adding that WHO is sending 2,600 extra…
By Grace Kuria Ghana’s pharmaceutical industry has approached AstraZeneca concerning acquiring rights to manufacture the vaccine locally. The move could boost supplies and speed up the inoculation program in the country. The country has to date received 842,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccines from sources including the COVAX initiative, which aims to ensure equitable access to…
By CGTN Africa The Democratic Republic of the Congo on Tuesday launched a preventive yellow fever vaccination campaign targeting more than 16.3 million people – the first such drive against the disease in Africa in 2021. The campaign is a collaborative effort involving the country’s health authorities with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO)…
By CGTN Africa Health authorities are reallocating around 75% of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s 1.7 million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses to other African countries to make sure they’re used before they expire, a UNICEF representative said on Monday. DR Congo received the doses from the COVAX vaccine-sharing facility on March 2 but delayed the…
By CGTN Africa Rwanda has recorded a sharp decline in malaria infection cases in the last three years, the Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) said on Sunday while marking World Malaria Day. Malaria cases in Rwanda decreased from 4.8 million in 2017 to 1.8 million in 2020, and severe malaria infections dropped from 18,000 in 2016…
By CGTN Africa A slowdown in coronavirus infections continues in Nigeria as it reported on Sunday 51 new cases and no deaths – the 12th consecutive day with zero fatalities. The new numbers pushed the overall caseload to 164,684 including 2,061 related deaths and 154,687 recoveries in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, according…
By CGTN Africa South will resume its Johnsons &Johnson vaccination programme on Wednesday this is after the rollout was put on hold following cases of rare blood clots that were reported in six recipients in the United States. The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority has since found no evidence of blood clots, and health…
By XINHUA Zimbabwe’s Vice President Constantino Chiwenga says the country aims to achieve 60 percent herd immunity from COVID-19 with the vaccination of 10 million people by the end of 2021. So far, more than 300,000 people have received their first doses of mainly the Chinese Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines, with more becoming amenable to…
By XINHUA Kenya will not ease the current containment measures prematurely, the cabinet secretary of the Ministry of Health Mutahi Kagwe said on Friday though the number of COVID-19 positive cases has declined slightly in the last 30 days since the government announced stringent containment measures to help contain the third wave of infections. Kagwe…
By Jerry Omondi The number of COVID-19 vaccinations administered in Kenya surpassed the 750,000 mark on Wednesday as the country continues giving jabs nationally. According to the health ministry, some 750,471 have received jabs of the vaccines, with priority given to high-risk groups including healthcare workers, the elderly and people offering other essential services. Kenya…
