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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...
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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.
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Name dropping: These are the WHO's new labels for COVID-19 variants
These are the new labels announced by the World Health Organization for COVID-19 variants using the Greek alphabet to avoid stigmatising nations where they were first detected.
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Heads of global organisations issue joint call for vaccine equality
Writing in the Washington Post on Tuesday, the heads of the World Health Organization, World Bank, International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization blamed the gap in vaccination programmes for the emergence of virus variants that have fueled fresh outbreaks in the developing world.
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ANALYSIS: Tobacco control: Why SA must do more to help people quit smoking
South Africa's approach to smoking doesn't adequately support current smokers who want to quit.
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This is what we still don't know about the origins of COVID-19
Graphic on key questions about the origins of the global pandemic, with a summary of findings from the WHO-China Joint Report revealed on 29 March.
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ANALYSIS: How SA is tracking adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines
Each province and district in South Africa has allocated persons responsible for investigating adverse events following COVID-19 vaccination.
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Variant first detected in India found in at least 53 territories: WHO
Additionally, the WHO has received information from unofficial sources that the B.1.617 variant has been found in seven other territories, figures in the UN health agency's weekly epidemiological update showed, taking the total to 60.
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UN chief: We must apply wartime logic to COVID response inequalities
Antonio Guterres warned the crisis was far from over despite rapidly advancing vaccination rollouts in wealthy parts of the world.
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At least 115,000 health workers have died from Covid-19: WHO chief
'For almost 18 months, health and care workers all over the world have stood in the breach between life and death,' WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the opening of the organisation's main annual assembly.
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Vaccines effective against variants but overseas travel still not safe: WHO
The so-called Indian variant, which may be more transmissible, has now been identified in at least 26 of the 53 countries in the WHO Europe region, Hans Kluge said during his weekly press conference.
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Don't vaccinate kids, but give doses to Covax: WHO chief
World Health Organization director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus voiced outrage that a number of rich countries were now vaccinating children and teenagers, while poorer states had barely begun vaccinating health workers and the most vulnerable groups.
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FACT CHECK: Why the EFF is wrong to compare vaccines
After South Africa suspended the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, the Economic Freedom Fighters urged “better” jab options. But as Africa Check explains, there really is no need to compare.
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Inside the COVID-19 variant first identified in India
The new B.1.617 variant of COVID-19 first detected in India is thought to be one of the factors driving the surge of infections across the country.
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Vaccines save millions of lives each year, say medical experts
The World Health Organization (WHO) said that due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many children had not been vaccinated, leaving them at risk of serious diseases like measles and polio.
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No data yet on changing COVID vaccines between doses: WHO
The World Health Organization has called for studies on so-called mixing and matching between vaccines, but said there was no comprehensive data so far on which it could make any recommendations.
