Covax programme
WHO's Covax forced to cut COVID vaccine deliveries to Africa by 25%
WHO epidemiologist, Doctor Impouma Benido, said that a third of coronavirus vaccine doses pledged have so far had reached Africa.
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The race to vaccinate: why Africa is struggling to get COVID jabs
Nearly six billion vaccine doses have been administered globally, but only 2% of those have been in Africa.
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India says COVID vaccine exports to restart in October
The South Asian giant, dubbed the 'pharmacy of the world', was a major supplier to the Covax programme aimed at ensuring poor countries can access doses.
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US donates 2.2m more Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses to SA - Phaahla
The consignment is due to arrive on Saturday - this will be in addition to the 5.6 million doses the country already gave the country in July.
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US donation of 2.8 million Pfizer vaccine doses to arrive in SA on Tuesday
The commitment of gifting half a billion Pfizer vaccines to countries across the world was made by US President Joe Biden in June. This is being channeled through the Covax facility with South Africa receiving over 5 million doses.
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Pandemic surges in Africa
The number of new cases has been on the increase since mid-May in Africa, which over the past week saw a jump of 25%.
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'Brutal' third wave hits Africa as vaccination slows
Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) director John Nkengasong on Thursday described the third wave as 'extremely brutal' and 'very devastating'.
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US buys half billion Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses for poorest countries
The United States has come under criticism for sitting on huge stocks of unused vaccines, something the government says was initially necessary as a precautionary measure in its own race to get shots into the arms of Americans.
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COVID-19 surge in India impacting vaccine flows to Africa
World Health Organization (WHO) officials said that vaccine deliveries to Africa ground to a near halt this month, as India diverted doses for domestic use.
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Covax signs deal for 500m Moderna COVID-19 vaccine doses
The doses, to come on stream from October at the earliest, will broaden out the portfolio of vaccines in the Covax scheme, which has so far been heavily reliant on the AstraZeneca vaccine and hit by delays.
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Don't waste the hope of vaccines, warns WHO
The World Health Organization voiced fears that further waves of the coronavirus pandemic could be on the way if people think the roll-out of vaccines around the globe means the crisis is over.
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WHO rolls out Covax vaccines to southern Africa
The COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access platform, also known as Covax last week delivered 600,000 units of the AstraZeneca vaccine to Ghana and 504,000 to the Ivory Coast.
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Ghana, I.Coast administer world's first free Covax jabs
The first lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo also received a jab, one day before the rest of the 600,000 doses are deployed across the country.
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Ghana to receive world's first doses of free Covax vaccines
The West African nation has recorded 80,759 COVID-19 cases and 582 deaths since the start of the pandemic. These figures are believed to fall short of the real toll as the number of tests is low.
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COVID-19 vaccine: There’s still no clarity on when vaccines will arrive in SA
The US and the UK have already started administering the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine to their citizens.
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DA calls on govt to publicly release its COVID-19 vaccine plans
The party on Friday said securing a vaccine for South Africa should be government’s number one priority.
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COVID-19 vaccine delivery to poor countries to start in early 2021: WHO
The UN health agency, the Gavi vaccine alliance, and the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) announced they had now secured nearly two billion doses of various vaccine candidates still under development on behalf of the 190 countries taking part in Covax.
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South Africans warned not to expect COVID-19 vaccine anytime soon
For months, the message has been that normality would only really return when there is a readily available and viable coronavirus vaccine.
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WHO in talks with Pfizer and Moderna on COVID-19 vaccine access
Vaccination campaigns have already begun in Britain and the United States.
