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More than 5.7 billion COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered globally, but only 2% of them in Africa, said World Health Organization (WHO) chief, Tedros Adhanom

Many Kenyans are perplexed over the emerging narrative in global media that vaccine hesitancy is to blame for low vaccination rates across the continent.

The Government has received 756,000 more doses of the Johnson & Johnson single-shot Covid-19 vaccine under the African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT). The delivery on Tuesday evening, the biggest so far, adds to previous ones of 177,600 and 244,800 doses received in August and September respectively. The vaccine deliveries are…

Botswana President Mokgweetsi Masisi, whose country has one of the world's highest COVID-19 infection rates per capita, has announced new

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), which facilitated the procurement of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Janssen Pharmaceuticals’ vaccine, says the vaccine...

The African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), which facilitated the procurement of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Janssen Pharmaceuticals’ vaccine, says the vaccine costs Nigeria $7.50 as against $10 per dose. | Pulse Nigeria

English News and Press Release on Botswana about Health and Epidemic; published on 13 Aug 2021 by AU, ECA and 2 other organizations

  Kenyan tour guides and travel operators prepare to receive the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine against the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), under the COVAX scheme, in Nairobi, Kenya on April 27, 2021. [Photo/Agencies] The COVID-19 pandemic, which has so far brought African economies almost to their knees, has seen many developing countries slip deeper and deeper into economic crisis. Moreover, the drastic measures put in place by many governments, including lockdowns and curfews, have ended up...

The Mastercard Foundation (www.MastercardFdn.org) has announced that it will deploy $1.3 billion over the next three years in partnership with the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) to save the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in Africa and hasten the economic recovery of the continent. The Saving Lives and Livelihoods initiative […]