By XINHUA Zimbabwe is pinning its hope on a comprehensive vaccination program to sustain economic recovery, as tourism and education sectors remain the most battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, the country’s Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube said Wednesday. “Our medium to long-term economic strategy is the vaccination program,” Ncube said during an international business conference at the…
By David Ochieng Mbewa Rwanda is the latest African country to fully vaccinate at least 10 percent of its population thereby achieving a target set out by the World Health Organization (WHO) to do so by the end of September. According to Rwanda’s Ministry of Health, 1,399,753 people in Rwanda have received two vaccine doses while…
By Grace Kuria The Government of South Africa has announced it will intensify efforts to get off the United Kingdom’s red travel list. In a statement, the country’s department of international relations and cooperation (DIRCO) said it is is puzzled at the U.K’s decision to keep South Africa on the red list of countries facing stringent…
By Grace Kuria Kenya’s health ministry on Sunday announced that it has recorded 234 new coronavirus cases, raising the country’s total tally to 246,530 cases. 492 people have recovered from the disease. The number of total recoveries is now at 237,295. Unfortunately, 9 people have succumbed to the disease. Total fatalities from COVID-19 now stand at 4,989….
By XINHUA Solange Uwizeyimana, a domestic worker had wanted to get vaccinated against COVID-19 for months, but when she went to a vaccination center in Rubavu town in western Rwanda, the health staff turned her away because she was not in the eligible age bracket. When she heard that a vaccination campaign dedicated to adults 18…
By Grace Kuria Botswana on Saturday received 101,760 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. This being the first batch of the expected 401,280 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine donated by the Federal Republic of Germany. Speaking after receiving the vaccines, Minister of Health and Wellness Dr. Edwin Dikoloti said every vaccine donated or purchased takes Botswana…
By Grace Kuria South Africa’s National Immunization Safety Expert Committee (NISEC) Chairperson, Professor Hannelie Meyer has announced that no South African has died from the COVID-19 vaccine jab. This even as the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) continues to investigate the safety of vaccines. Meyer said SAHPRA and NISEC received 88 reports of death…
By Grace Kuria The World Health Organization (WHO) has announced that only two African countries have reached COVID-19 vaccination target. Speaking during the COVID-19 briefing on vaccine equity, WHO’s Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom said, WHO’s global targets are to support every country to vaccinate at least 40 percent of its population by the end of…
By Reuters Johnson & Johnson said on Monday its Ebola vaccine regimen demonstrated antibody immune responses in adults and children, citing data published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal. The two-dose regimen was well-tolerated and induced antibody responses to the Zaire ebolavirus species 21 days after the second dose in 98 percent of all participants, the…
By Jerry Omondi South Africa recorded 3,961 new COVID-19 infections from a sample size of 35,965 tests conducted in the last 24 hours, bringing the cumulative caseload to 2,858,195. The figures were published by the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD), a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, 126 new fatalities were recorded in the…
