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By CGTN Africa Kenya has received an additional 907,200 doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccine at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on Wednesday afternoon as a donation from Mastercard foundation. The country also received 7.5 million special syringes meant for the administration of Pfizer vaccine. “We expect 4 million vaccines soon, so the syringes are in…

By Reuters As deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines to Africa finally pick up, many nations are struggling with the logistics of accelerating their inoculation campaigns, the head of Africa’s disease control body said on Thursday. Only 6.6 percent of Africa’s population of 1.2 billion is fully vaccinated, John Nkengasong, head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control…

By Reuters South Africa has asked Johnson & Johnson and Pfizer to delay delivery of COVID-19 vaccines because it now has too much stock, health ministry officials said, as vaccine hesitancy slows an inoculation campaign. “We have 158 days’ stock in the country at current use,” a spokesman for the health ministry said. “We have deferred…

By XINHUA South Sudan and the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday they have stepped up Ebola virus disease (EVD) preparedness and response readiness in the high-risk counties of Morobo and Yei River, Central Equatoria state. Fabian Ndenzako, WHO Representative for South Sudan said the UN agency has started developing a response plan and mobilizing resources…