By Jerry Omondi South Africa on Saturday reported 182 new COVID-19 fatalities recorded in the last 24 hours, taking the country’s virus-related death toll to 83,343. In the same period, health authorities registered 8,411 new infections, taking the total number of confirmed cases to 2,814,014. South Africa remains to be the hardest-hit country by the pandemic…
By Grace Kuria Kenya’s health ministry on Saturday announced that it has recorded 840 new coronavirus cases, raising the country’s total tally to 239,692 cases. 1,237 people have recovered from the disease, 1,104 from Home Based and Isolation Care while 133 are from various health facilities countrywide. The number of total recoveries is now at 227,274. Unfortunately,…
By XINHUA Zambia has acquired more COVID-19 vaccines as part of efforts to ramp up its vaccination program, a government official said on Saturday. The 4,400,000 doses of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine have been acquired under the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust, an initiative of the African Union (AU). Kennedy Malama, Permanent Secretary in charge…
By XINHUA The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 7,869,709 as of Saturday afternoon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the African Union, said the death toll from the pandemic across the continent stands at 198,587. Some 7,046,164 patients across the…
By XINHUA Angola aims to administer an average of 90,000 vaccine doses against COVID-19 daily, the country’s minister of state and head of the presidency’s security affairs, Francisco Pereira Furtado has said. The minister, who was speaking at the end of a visit to the vaccination posts in the capital Luanda on Wednesday, said the immunization…
By Reuters An arrangement whereby Johnson & Johnson (J&J) ships COVID-19 vaccine doses to Europe that had been packaged in South Africa has been suspended, African Union (AU) envoy Strive Masiyiwa said on Thursday. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said last month he was “stunned” by the arrangement, since Europe has very high vaccination rates while…
By XINHUA Chinese medical doctors’ presence in Masaka Hospital, Masaka Sector in the city suburbs of the Rwandan capital Kigali is transforming the healthcare services in Rwanda by providing specialized medical care to Rwandan patients. “I am suffering from genital inflammation. I have been suffering from this disease for about one year and a half. The…
By Grace Kuria Kenya has on Thursday morning received 358,200 AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses courtesy of the Canadian government. The donation is part of the 1.3 million doses Canada shipped to three African countries. Nigeria and Niger were the other two nations receiving doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine. “This donation means those that have taken the…
By Jerry Omondi The Ghana Infectious Disease Center (GIDC) has installed its first Arterial Blood Gas Analyzer donated by the World Health Organization (WHO) with the support of the World Bank’s Pandemic Emergency Facility Fund. The analyzer boosts the West African nation’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic by providing optimum intensive care to critically ill patients….
By XINHUA The highly infectious Delta variant continued being the “dominant variant” in South Africa and the driver of the third wave, as the newly detected C.1.2 variant was present at very low levels, scientists said. “The Delta variant was still the most dominant variant with the new variant C.1.2 being detected at low frequency,” said…
