By XINHUA The Senegalese government seeks to inoculate all citizens who wish to receive COVID-19 vaccination by 2022, the health minister has said. Health and Social Action Minister Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr told daily paper Le Soleil that Senegal would kick off “an emergency phase” of vaccination for frontline health workers, people over 60 years and people…
By Grace Kuria A supply of over 11,360 Ebola vaccines sent by the World Health Organization (WHO) arrived in Conakry airport, Guinea, Monday night. The arrival of the desperately needed vaccines means Guinea can finally start a vaccination drive to stamp out a resurgence of the deadly virus. A further 8,700 vaccine doses were set to arrive from the…
By AFP Four people have died from Ebola during a new outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where people are resisting measures to contain the disease, officials said Sunday. Since the epidemic’s resurgence this month, “we have already registered six Ebola cases. We have lost four infected people,” Doctor Eugene Syalita, the provincial health minister in…
By XINHUA The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent reached 3,822,470 as of Sunday evening, according to the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC). The agency’s COVID-19 dashboard showed that the number of COVID-19-inflicted deaths in Africa has reached 101,053. A total of 3,375,490 people infected with COVID-19 have so…
By XINHUA Rwanda’s Ministry of Sports on Sunday announced the resumption of some sporting activities in the country after more than a month of suspension following the Cabinet resolution on COVID-19 restrictions in the country. Individual and non-contact outdoor sports activities such as jogging, athletics, individual physical fitness, hiking, cycling, golf, tennis, badminton, skate, archery and…
Tue, 16 February, 2021, 1:03 pm·2-min read NAW: Senator Dr. Rasha Kelej, is truly a force of nature and one of Africa’s unsung ‘sheroes’ of women’s empowerment and health advocates. Here at the NAW, we will be right behind this inspirational woman, all the way. SENATE APPOINTMENT in December 2020: Dr. Rasha Kelej appointed as…
By XINHUA Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Saturday urged all Zimbabweans to be vaccinated against COVID-19, saying that this was the only way to conquer the pandemic. Addressing mourners at the burial of national hero Moses Mpofu at the National Heroes Acre, Mnangagwa said the vaccines which Zimbabwe had received from China earlier in the week…
By XINHUA A seamless roll-out of COVID-19 vaccine in Africa hinges on improving the knowledge of the continent’s frontline health care workers in critical areas like storage, supply chains management and effective communication to the public, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. Ambrose Talisuna, emergency preparedness programme manager at WHO Regional Office for Africa…
By CGTN Africa New outbreaks of the deadly Ebola virus disease in the two African countries of Guinea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are sending new jitters to Africa as the continent is grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic. In the West African country Guinea, bordering the Atlantic Ocean to the west, health authorities…
