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Martha Kay, Ugandan performer / Music artist has agreed to use her platforms to fight covid as part of #AfricaCOVIDChampions Addis Ababa (Ethiopia), Brazzaville (Republic of Congo), Kinshasa (Democratic Republic of Congo), Lusaka (Zambia), New York, NY (USA) , 30th March 2021 -/African Media Agency (AMA)/- In order to combat the spread of misinformation and…

Content provided by Last updated: 5 hours ago With Africa-bound COVID-19 vaccine doses from the Serum Institute of India delayed for the foreseeable future, slow vaccine rollouts and new variants making inroads, the risk of a new wave of infections in Africa remains high. Delays and shortages of vaccine supplies are driving African countries to slip further behind the rest of the world in the COVID-19 vaccine roll out and the continent now accounts for only 1% of the vaccines administered worldwide, down from 2% a few weeks a...

Africa: Vaccine supply crunch adds to risk of COVID-19 resurgence  6 May 2021 at 17:43 |  300 views With Africa-bound COVID-19 vaccine doses from the Serum Institute of India delayed for the foreseeable future, slow vaccine rollouts and new variants making inroads, the risk of a new wave of infections in Africa remains high. Delays and shortages of vaccine supplies are driving African countries to slip further behind the rest of the world in the COVID-19 vaccine roll out and the continent now accounts for only 1% of the vaccines administered worldwide, down from 2% a few weeks ago. CO...

Vaccine supply crunch adds to risk of COVID-19 resurgence Format 6 May 2021 Brazzaville, 6 May 2021 - With Africa-bound COVID-19 vaccine doses from the Serum Institute of India delayed for the foreseeable future, slow vaccine rollouts and new variants making inroads, the risk of a new wave of infections in Africa remains high. Delays and shortages of vaccine supplies are driving African countries to slip further behind the rest of the world in the COVID-19 vaccine roll out and the continent now accounts for only 1% of the vaccines administered worldwide, down from 2% a few weeks ago. COVID-19...

705 The World Health Organisation (WHO) has bemoaned the slow pace of Africa’s COVID-19 vaccination process, saying “fair access to vaccines must be a reality if we are to collectively make a dent on this pandemic”. The global body suggests further that Africa accounts for less than two per cent of the 690 million COVID-19 vaccine doses administered globally so far, stressing that most countries on the continent received vaccines only five weeks ago and in small quantities. So far, 45 African countries are said to have received the COVID-19 vaccines, with 43 of them having begun vaccina...