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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