By XINHUA Namibia is upbeat about reviving its ailing tourism industry which lost more than about 220 million U.S. dollars in a year due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic following the advent of a vaccine, a senior government official said on Wednesday. Romeo Muyunda, Ministry of Environment, Forestry and Tourism chief public relations officer, told…
By Jerry Omondi Uganda launched its mass COVID-19 vaccination program on Wednesday, joining a host of countries in Africa to initiate the inoculations. Minister of Health Jane Ruth Aceng received her jab in front of media cameras at Mulago Hospital in Kampala, confirming that the East African country would be administering the AstraZeneca vaccines. The minister…
By Reuters Zimbabwe has authorized the emergency use of four COVID-19 vaccines, including Russia’s Sputnik V and China’s Sinovac, the minister of information said on Tuesday. The southern African nation last month rolled out its COVID-19 vaccination program after receiving a donation of 200,000 doses of shots from China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm). Last week, India…
By David Ochieng Mbewa Botswana on Tuesday received a batch of 30,000 COVID-19 vaccines from India at the Sir Seretse Khama International Airport in the capital, Gaborone. The Covishield vaccines are a donation from India, according to Vice President Slumber Tsogwane, who was on hand at the airport to receive the consignment. Covishield, the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine,…
By XINHUA The Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) and Rwanda Correctional Services on Tuesday began inoculating elderly inmates and those with underlying diseases against COVID-19. The vaccination started at Nyarugenge prison in the capital city of Kigali, where 2,077 inmates are set to be inoculated, and the authorities plan to extend the vaccination to all inmates aged…
By XINHUA Ghana is expecting 2 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX facility by the end of May for its mass vaccination program, Director General of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) Patrick Kuma-Aboagye said here on Monday. A total of 202,252 people have so far received one jab of the COVID-19 vaccine as of…
By Jerry Omondi The impact of COVID-19 is exacerbating conditions for refugee, displaced and stateless women and girls around the world, the United Nations Refugee Agency warned as the world marked the International Women’s Day. “The unprecedented socio-economic impacts of the pandemic are leaving many lives in peril. We are seeing extremely worrying increases in reports…
By Grace Kuria Uganda will commence its COVID-19 vaccination programme on Wednesday, March 10th after receiving its first batch of 864,000 doses of the COVAX AstraZeneca vaccine on Friday. According to Health Minister Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, “priority will be based on occupational risk of infection, risk of developing severe diseases, death from COVID-19 and population…
By XINHUA COVID-19 is exacerbating inequities associated with gender in several key spheres of life and development, Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organization (WHO) regional director for Africa said in a statement issued in Nairobi ahead of International Women’s Day to be marked on March 8. WHO said that African women bore the brunt of income losses,…
By Grace Kuria World Health Organization (WHO) has warned against relaxing efforts in fighting the coronavirus pandemic as a result of the rollout of vaccines which has already commenced in most countries round the globe, saying, “countries are going to lurch back into third and fourth surges if we’re not careful.” Executive director of the World…
