By XINHUA Zimbabwe’s current Level 4 COVID-19 lockdown is due to end Monday, with President Emmerson Mnangagwa expected to announce whether there will be an extension or relaxation of restrictions. The country experienced increased infections and deaths in January and early February following the festive season when there was a lot of traveling, but these have…
By Grace Kuria The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Saturday issued emergency use authorization for Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine, which is administered as a single dose. “The authorization of this vaccine expands the availability of vaccines, the best medical prevention method for Covid-19, to help us in the fight against this pandemic,” said…
By CGTN Africa Six hundred thousand doses of the COVID-19 vaccine from the UN-partnered COVAX initiative arrived in Ghana on Wednesday, and The World Health Organization (WHO) said that further supplies of the AstraZeneca/Oxford jab will reach Côte d’Ivoire later this week. These are the first coronavirus shots from the COVAX scheme to be distributed outside India,…
By CGTN Africa Moderna on Wednesday said it has shipped to the National Institutes of Health doses of a new COVID-19 vaccine designed to provide better protection against the highly contagious coronavirus variant spreading in South Africa. “Moderna is committed to making as many updates to our vaccine as necessary until the pandemic is under control,”…
By XINHUA Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed said the COVID-19 vaccination will cost citizens 200 Egyptian pounds (12.8 U.S. dollars) for a two-dose regimen of 21-day duration, the state-run Ahram website reported Wednesday. “Needy families and individuals to be exempt from any vaccination expenses,” Zayed told ON satellite channel on Tuesday. Starting February 28, the minister…
By XINHUA A batch of COVID-19 vaccines donated by China arrived here on Wednesday to help the African country fight against the COVID-19 pandemic, and it was also the first batch of COVID-19 vaccines received by the country. Speaking after a delivery ceremony at the airport, Mozambican Prime Minister Carlos Agostinho do Rosario praised China’s role…
By XINHUA The Ethiopian Ministry of Health on Tuesday evening reported 716 new COVID-19 cases over the last 24 hours, taking the national count to 154,257. Meanwhile, 12 new fatalities and 1,338 more recoveries were recorded over the same period, raising the COVID-19 death toll to 2,305 and the total recoveries to 133,051. Ethiopia, Africa’s second…
By XINHUA Doses of COVID-19 vaccines allocated through the COVAX facility are expected in Namibia in March, Health Minister Kalumbi Shangula said on Wednesday. Shangula said the country has proposed a total budget of about 583 million Namibia dollars (40 million U.S. dollars) for COVID-19 vaccines under the Deployment and Vaccination Plan, of which 485 million…
By XINHUA Guinea has launched a vaccination campaign in Conakry and Gbeke in southeastern N’Zerekore administrative region, according to the health ministry. The 11,500 doses of vaccines that arrived Monday in Conakry were distributed among the various localities which had reported positive cases or contacts of patients, said a statement of the health ministry. In the…
By Grace Kuria Ghana is on Wednesday set to be the first country in the world to receive a shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from COVAX, an effort backed by the World Health Organization (WHO) to distribute the vaccines for free to poor nations. On Wednesday, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted saying, “I’m pleased that the…
