By CGTN Africa The reported number of COVID-19 cases in Uganda has dropped by 10 percent in the last seven days despite reports of the spike in infections in a few districts. Statistics from the Uganda Ministry of Health indicate that between September 3 and September 9, a total of 830 cases of COVID-19 infections were…
By XINHUA Tanzania has increased centers for COVID-19 vaccination from 550 to 1,548 to enable people to get the jabs en masse, a senior official said on Sunday. Gerson Msigwa, Tanzania’s government chief spokesperson, said preliminary reports indicated that more people were turning up in the vaccination centers to get the jabs. Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu…
By XINHUA Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech on Friday launched the Phase III clinical trial of its COVID-19 vaccine on a group of children and teenagers between six months and 17 years old in South Africa. The study, carried out in collaboration with South African company Numolux Group, has enrolled approximately 2,000 participants in the country,…
By CGTN Africa South Africa has recorded 5,372 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24-hour reporting cycle, with a further 282 COVID-19 related deaths recorded. According to the National Institute of Communicable Diseases (NICD), this brings the total number of laboratory confirmed COVID-19 cases to 2,829,435, with 83,899 fatalities reported to date. The NICD said 43,632…
By XINHUA Berhanu Kedir, 34, is one of the many outpatients who have been receiving the traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for treatment at the Tirunesh Beijing Hospital on the outskirts of the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Kedir suffered a car accident seven months ago and has since struggled with long-term waist and left leg pain as…
By Reuters Government workers in Zimbabwe who do not want to be vaccinated against COVID-19 should resign, its justice minister said on Tuesday. The southern African nation has so far vaccinated 2.7 million people, against a target of inoculating two-thirds of its 15 million population by the end of the year. President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s government says…
By XINHUA Egypt’s state-owned vaccine production company has been working nonstop to manufacture millions of doses of COVID-19 vaccine Sinovac, as the most populous Arab country eyes becoming a regional hub for vaccine production and exportation. The vaccines are being produced by Egyptian Holding Company for Biological Products and Vaccines (VACSERA) as per an agreement signed…
By XINHUA Tanzanian health authorities started installing 25 oxygen-generating plants across the country in an effort to help COVID-19 patients with respiratory complications. Leonard Subi, the director of preventive services in the Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children, said each of the oxygen generating plants will have the capacity to fill 200 oxygen…
By Jerry Omondi Botswana’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic received another boost on Sunday after the country received more than 404,000 doses of the Chinese-manufactured Sinovac vaccine. The government announced it has received 404,494 doses purchased from Sinovac Biotech Company through a bilateral arrangement. “Communication on the roll out of this consignment will be made next…
By David Ochieng Mbewa The resumption of the second phase of Botswana’s COVID-19 vaccination roll out program has been strengthened following the receipt of 404,494 doses of the Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine doses, which were received on Sunday, were purchased from the Sinovac Biotech Company in China through a bilateral arrangement, according to a statement…
