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Sixteen African countries have shown interest in securing COVID-19 vaccines under an African Union (AU) plan, and allocations could be announced in the next three weeks, the head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has said. While many rich nations have already begun mass inoculation drives, only a few African countries have started vaccinations, and the 55-member African Union hopes to see 60 percent of the continent’s 1.3 billion people immunised in the next three years. The AU has so far secured around 670 million doses for its member states. Africa CDC Directo...

AP Johnson & Johnson asked US drug regulators to clear its experimental COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, setting up what is likely to be a fast-moving review process that could lead to millions more doses becoming available to step up a stumbling immunisation drive. The drugmaker said in a statement Thursday that it had filed an application for an emergency-use authorisation with the US Food and Drug Administration. If cleared, the shot would give the US a third vaccine to try to halt a pandemic that has killed more than 450,000 Americans. Paul Stoffels, J&J’s chief scientific officer, s...

A year after the novel coronavirus started spreading around the world, the arrival of the vaccine gives great hope for our country’s social and economic recovery – and, most importantly, for the health of our people.

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End of Year Message from H.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat, Chairperson of the African Union Commission Dear Colleagues, As we mark the end of the year 2020, we also mark the end of one of the most extraordinary and challenging years in living memory. From the first recorded case of Covid-19 on the Continent on 14 February 2020, Member States through a coordinated Continental strategy, have shown singular resilience. But the pandemic has shown similar resilience, proving that the challenging task of protecting our health and livelihoods, while ensuring recovery of our economies, still lies ahead as we...