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Covid-19: Poor countries without vaccines could face grave death toll

Poorer countries will most likely "bear the brunt of hundreds of thousands of needless deaths" from inequalities in access to Covid-19 vaccines. This dire warning...

Covid-19: Commonwealth ministers call for global co-operation on vaccines

Commonwealth Law Ministers have called for increased international co-operation to enable equal access to Covid-19 vaccinations. A special virtual meeting of Law Ministers was convened...

Ghana approves Russian vaccine for use against Covid-19

Ghana has granted emergency authorisation for the use of the Russian Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19. Russia’s RDIF sovereign wealth fund made the confirmation on...

West African countries on high alert over Ebola outbreak

Countries in West Africa have been placed on high alert to quell an outbreak of Ebola. It follows a warning from the World Health Organization...

Zimbabwe receives 200k doses of Covid-19 vaccine from China

Zimbabwe has received its first 200,000 doses of the Sinopharm Covid vaccine from China, according to the government. The consignment of the vaccine arrived on...

Ghana’s parliament suspends sitting amid Covid-19 infections

Ghana's parliament has suspended sitting for at least three weeks following reports of Covid-19 infections among lawmakers. More than 100 cases of the virus had...

South Africa suspends Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine

South Africa has suspended the use of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccination. Tests conducted by the country have shown that the vaccine developed by drug-maker AstraZeneca...

Mystery sickness kills at least 15 people in Tanzania

At least 15 people have reportedly died in Tanzania following an unidentified illness in the south-western part of the country. Over 50 others have also...

Covid-19: Oxford vaccine offers less South African variant protection

Oxford-AstraZeneca's vaccine offers "minimal protection" against mild disease from the South Africa variant, scientists say early trials suggest. A new study, not yet peer reviewed,...

Tanzania says it has ‘no plans to receive’ Covid-19 vaccines

Tanzania has said that it doesn't have plans of importing Covid-19 vaccines to protect citizens. The country's Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima is reported as saying...

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