Covax programme
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...
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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.
