By XINHUA The East African Business Council (EABC) said on Wednesday that economic recovery from COVID-19 related shocks in the region was on course amid easing of travel restrictions, ramped up vaccination and renewed investor confidence. John Bosco Kalisa, executive director of EABC, a regional body of private investors, said that governments have made bold policy…
By Jerry Omondi The number of COVID-19 infections in South Africa surpassed the 2.9 million mark on Wednesday as efforts to contain further spread of the virus continue. The country’s health ministry reported 2,106 new infections from tests conducted in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 2,900,994. In the same…
By XINHUA The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) on Wednesday received a batch of Chinese Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines offered by the Chinese government at the N’djili Airport in the capital city Kinshasa. In a hand-over ceremony at the airport in the presence of the Chinese Ambassador to the DRC, Zhu Jing and several officials of…
By CGTN Africa Namibia on Tuesday announced that it received a donation of 100,620 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine from the U.S. Embassy in Windhoek as part of its global efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. The donated vaccines are part of the U.S. pledge to initially provide at least 25 million of 80 million doses globally to Africa. The U.S. government coordinated closely with the African Union,…
By Jerry Omondi The number of COVID-19 infections in Angola rose beyond the 55,000 mark on Monday after the health ministry announced 326 new cases from 2,501 tests conducted over the past 24 hours. The Southern African country has now registered a total of 55,121 COVID-19 cases from a total of 986,534 samples processed. Of the…
By CGTN Africa Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has urged the global community to remain focused on the fight against malaria despite the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. The President, who is also the current Chairman of the African Leaders Malaria Alliance (ALMA), said it was unfortunate that COVID-19 had overshadowed all the efforts that had gone into fighting…
By Reuters In March, as wealthy Britain led the world in vaccination rates and almost half its people had received a shot, the organization meant to ensure fair global access to COVID-19 vaccines allotted the country over half a million doses from its supplies. By contrast, Botswana, which hadn’t even started its vaccination drive, was assigned…
By CGTN Africa Ghana on Sunday received 1.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine from Germany. Germany promised to donate the vaccines when Chancellor Angela Merkel held bilateral talks with Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo in August. Initially, the European country agreed to send 1.2 million doses but increased it by 300,000. AstraZeneca was the first…
By XINHUA The World Bank will support Ghana in eliminating air pollution to curb the effect on public health, the bank’s country director for Ghana Pierre Laporte said on Friday. Laporte made the remarks during a meeting on findings of a field study over air pollution in Ghana. The study concluded that 100 percent of Ghanaians…
By CGTN Africa Rwanda has fully vaccinated 18% of its population against COVID-19, reaching the September global target by the World Health Organization (WHO) aimed at widening vaccination and helping to turn the tide against the pandemic. “Two million vaccinations is a milestone but the journey continues,” says Dr Daniel Ngamije, The Minister of Health.He further…
