By XINHUA Malawi government has banned with immediate effect travels to and from Bangladesh, Brazil, India and Pakistan following the severe spreading of the new COVID-19 wave in those countries. Malawi Minister of Health, Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda, declared the ban Monday in an update on COVID-19 in the country. Chiponda, who co-chairs the Presidential Taskforce…
By XINHUA Zimbabwe said its prime tourist destination Victoria Falls has become the first city to achieve herd immunity in the country after administering COVID-19 vaccines to more than three-quarters of the targeted population. The city is home to the magnificent Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe’s premier tourist attraction and one of the seven natural wonders of…
By Grace Kuria Kenya has on Tuesday announced that it has inoculated a total of 840,075 persons against COVID-19. Of these, 486,050 are aged 58 years and above, 154,031 are Health Care Workers, 129,527 teachers, while 70,467 are security officers. As at April 26, a total of 1,080,000 doses had been distributed to the regional…
By AP The U.S. will begin sharing its entire stock of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines with the world once it clears federal safety reviews, the White House said Monday, with as many as 60 million doses expected to be available for export in the coming months. The move greatly expands on the Biden administration’s action last…
By Grace Kuria World Health Organization (WHO) Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has termed the situation in India as ‘beyond heartbreaking’. “WHO is doing everything we can, providing critical equipment and supplies, including thousands of oxygen concentrators, prefabricated mobile field hospitals and laboratory supplies,” The Director General said. Adding that WHO is sending 2,600 extra…
By Grace Kuria Ghana’s pharmaceutical industry has approached AstraZeneca concerning acquiring rights to manufacture the vaccine locally. The move could boost supplies and speed up the inoculation program in the country. The country has to date received 842,000 doses of the coronavirus vaccines from sources including the COVAX initiative, which aims to ensure equitable access to…
By CGTN Africa The Democratic Republic of the Congo on Tuesday launched a preventive yellow fever vaccination campaign targeting more than 16.3 million people – the first such drive against the disease in Africa in 2021. The campaign is a collaborative effort involving the country’s health authorities with the support of the World Health Organization (WHO)…
By CGTN Africa Health authorities are reallocating around 75% of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s 1.7 million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine doses to other African countries to make sure they’re used before they expire, a UNICEF representative said on Monday. DR Congo received the doses from the COVAX vaccine-sharing facility on March 2 but delayed the…
By CGTN Africa Rwanda has recorded a sharp decline in malaria infection cases in the last three years, the Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) said on Sunday while marking World Malaria Day. Malaria cases in Rwanda decreased from 4.8 million in 2017 to 1.8 million in 2020, and severe malaria infections dropped from 18,000 in 2016…
By CGTN Africa A slowdown in coronavirus infections continues in Nigeria as it reported on Sunday 51 new cases and no deaths – the 12th consecutive day with zero fatalities. The new numbers pushed the overall caseload to 164,684 including 2,061 related deaths and 154,687 recoveries in 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory, according…
