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Africa's Covid-19 death rate now higher than global rate
21st January 2021 Africa's coronavirus case fatality rate stands at 2.5%, higher than the global level of 2.2%, a trend that is alarming experts, the head of the... →
Biovac to distribute vaccines to S Africa healthcare workers
21st January 2021 South Africa has a three-month plan to import, store and distribute coronavirus vaccines for frontline healthcare workers through a contract with... →
New Covid-19 variant defeats plasma treatment, may reduce vaccine efficacy
21st January 2021 The new Covid-19 variant identified in South Africa can evade the antibodies that attack it in treatments using blood plasma from previously... →
S Africa to pay big premium for AstraZeneca vaccine from India's SII – Report
21st January 2021 South Africa will pay $5.25 per dose for Covid-19 vaccines from the Serum Institute of India (SII) - well above what others, including developed... →
Britain helps Kenya prepare for roll-out of Covid-19 vaccine
20th January 2021 Britain said on Wednesday it was helping Kenya prepare to roll out the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Astrazeneca and Oxford University, as African... →
Covid-19 shots to cost $3 to $10 under African Union vaccine plan
20th January 2021 African countries will pay between $3 and $10 per vaccine dose to access 270-million Covid-19 shots secured this month by the African Union (AU),... →
Violence creates food crisis in northern Mozambique – WFP
19th January 2021 Militant attacks that have forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado province have created a... →
Nigeria's exhausted medics keep waiting for Covid-19 vaccines
19th January 2021 Dr Oluwajoba Oroge braced for the week ahead - another long line of coronavirus patients at Abuja's EHA clinic, and another long wait for news of a... →
Rwanda re-imposes strict lockdown in capital after Covid-19 cases surge
19th January 2021 Rwanda has re-introduced tough lockdown measures in its capital Kigali after a surge in coronavirus cases. The government has also banned movement... →
Nigeria requests 10-million Covid-19 vaccine doses from African Union
19th January 2021 Nigeria has written to the African Union to request 10-million Covid-19 vaccine doses to supplement the COVAX programme and has allocated $26... →
