By XINHUA South Africa Tourism (SAT) launched the 2021 Sho’t Left Travel Week during which tourists are given discounts to encourage local travel to revive the sector. The SAT, a national tourism agency responsible for marketing South Africa as a destination internationally and domestically, said travellers will get up to 50 percent discount in various parts…
By XINHUA Kenya’s economic growth is projected to slow down to 5.9 percent in the 2022/2023 financial year due to the uncertainty associated with the general election, the National Treasury said in its budget review outlook paper released Friday. The Treasury said that while the economy would recover from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and…
By CGTN Sinovac began shipping its first batch of inactivated COVID-19 vaccines to the COVAX project on Sunday, according to the official WeChat account of the Chinese pharmaceutical company. The 567,600 doses of COVID-19 vaccines, purchased by the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), are scheduled to arrive in Algiers, the capital of Algeria on Monday, to…
By Grace Kuria Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has said that end-to-end production of mRNA vaccines is possible in Africa, thanks to innovations in engineering being undertaken by BioNTech and its partners, among others. This trend is set to have wide implications for the feasibility of all types of pharmaceutical production in Africa in the years ahead….
By XINHUA Uganda’s vice-president Jessica Alupo has said that the east African country is set to receive some 300,000 more doses of COVID-19 vaccine from China. Alupo in a tweet on Friday said this new batch of vaccine doses would be donated by the Asian country. “As government, we applaud this development and our strong bilateral…
By XINHUA Angolan health authorities are concerned about the increase in death numbers due to COVID-19 across the country, the Secretary of State for Public Health, Franco Mufinda said here Friday. Mufinda said that in the first 22 days of August, 142 death cases were registered due to COVID-19. “We started to have a weekly increase…
By Reuters Scientists have discovered the 43 million-year-old fossil of a previously unknown amphibious four-legged whale species in Egypt that helps trace the transition of whales from land to sea. The newly discovered whale belongs to the Protocetidae, a group of extinct whales that falls in the middle of that transition, the Egyptian-led team of researchers…
By XINHUA The Zimbabwean government announced Wednesday that the COVID-19 vaccination is now open for 14 to 17 year age groups, as it seeks to ramp up inoculation and reach herd immunity by year-end. Until now, the vaccination program has been open to people aged 18 years and above. “Based on the advice of scientists, the…
By Jerry Omondi Vaccination against COVID-19 does not threaten the lives of people living with chronic illnesses including diabetes, hypertension and cancer, Kenya’s health ministry clarified on Wednesday. The clarification came at a virtual media roundtable organized by the ministry which seeks to accelerate the country’s ongoing vaccination drive. “The message the media needs to take…
By Grace Kuria The South African Department of Health stated that it distributed 266,988 jabs on Tuesday, pushing the tally to 11,076,106. In addition, there are 146,715 people who were fully vaccinated in the past 24 hours. The latest data also shows that the government has already reached 21.21 percent of the country’s adult population, of…
