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In about-face, Burundi receives first COVID vaccines
Burundi only rarely makes public announcements about COVID infection data but according to the latest figures reported to the World Health Organization (WHO),...
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SA team sets sights on innovative mRNA jab to help meet Africa's vaccine gap
Cape Town-based Afrigen Biologics and Vaccines is leading a pilot project, backed by the UN's World Health Organization and the COVAX initiative, which seeks to tweak Moderna's revolutionary drug.
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WHO recommends use of first malaria vaccine for children
The decision followed a review of a pilot programme deployed since 2019 in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi in which more than two million doses were given of the vaccine.
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EXPLAINER: COVID treatments: What works, what doesn't, what might
Here's a look at what works, what might work, and what definitely doesn't when it comes to treating COVID-19.
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‘Africa’s socio-economic recovery depends on large-scale vaccination’
The World Health Organization said only one in 25 people in Africa had so far received a coronavirus vaccine shot.
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Chen: We must rely on science & not political agendas to find COVID origins
Chen has briefed the media on Monday, lashing out at the US calling their probes politically motivated "witch hunts" which aim to smear China's name.
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Israel to begin COVID booster shots for over 30s
Israel is among a handful of nations that has decided to administer a third vaccine dose, a policy criticised by the World Health Organization, which has called for more doses to be sent to poorer states.
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WHO says it only has a week's medical supplies left in Afghanistan
"WHO now only has enough supplies in-country to last for one week," said Ahmed al-Mandhari, the head of WHO's Eastern Mediterranean region -- stretching from Morocco to Afghanistan.
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WHO Africa: 30% inoculation target by end of year still attainable
This comes with Cabinet's announcement that the vaccination of South Africans aged between 18 and 35 years will be open from Friday.
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WHO says it's confident China will cooperate on COVID origins probe
Pressure has again been mounting on Beijing to consider a fresh probe into the origins of a pandemic which has killed more than four million people and paralysed economies worldwide since it first emerged in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in late 2019.
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WHO slams wealthy nations' rush towards COVID vaccine boosters
WHO called earlier this month for a moratorium on COVID vaccine booster shots to help ease the drastic inequity in dose distribution between rich and poor nations.
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ICoast's first case of Ebola since 1994 of 'immense concern'
The Institut Pasteur had confirmed the case after testing samples taken from an 18-year-old Guinean woman, Health Minister Pierre N'Gou Demba told RTI state television late on Saturday.
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China approves first mixed-vaccine trial as Delta spreads
The World Health Organization has said there is still not enough data to say whether using two different vaccines together is safe or can boost immunity.
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First West African case of deadly Marburg virus detected: WHO
Marburg virus is usually associated with exposure to caves or mines housing colonies of Rousettus bats. Once caught by a human, it is spread through contact with bodily fluids of infected people, or with contaminated surfaces and materials, according to the WHO.
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Africa COVID deaths surge 43% in a week: WHO
Fatalities associated with COVID in the WHO's Africa region, which includes North Africa, rose to 6,273 in the week of July 5-11, compared with 4,384 in the previous week.
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COVID-19 update: 16 mn Africans, less than 2% of the continent, fully vaccinated
World Health Organization regional director Matshidiso Moeti gave an update on the COVID-19 pandemic on the continent on 8 July. Moeti said that in total, there had been close to 5.7 million cases in Africa, with 146,000 people losing their lives to the virus. Moeti also said that less than 2% of Africans had been fully vaccinated, leaving millions more still vulnerable to infection and severe illness.
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WHO warns access to water still an uphill battle amid a pandemic
UNICEF and the WHO are also warning that unless governments make progress, billions more people will find themselves in an even worse situation by 2030.
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Double COVID jab seems to curb Delta variant: EMA
The upbeat assessment came as the World Health Organization warned that the variant first spotted in India could fuel a new wave of cases in Europe.
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8 African countries seeing sharp rise in COVID-19 cases - WHO Africa
Over the past week, 74,000 COVID-19 cases were reported, while 131,000 people on the continent died from the disease.
