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Nigerian University Shuts Down Hostels Over Covid-19 Surge
On Thursday, one of Nigeria’s largest universities sent residential students home and said it would suspend physical attendance of lectures as fears grow about a new wave of coronavirus in Africa’s most populous nation. The governing body of the University Of Lagos (UNILAG) said the decision was made after a few reported Covid-19 cases in…
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Police Officers In Soweto Receive Coronavirus Vaccine
South Africa’s government has started vaccinating the nation’s police officers as part of the second phase of its coronavirus vaccination campaign. A vaccination site has been set up at the Orlando Stadium in Soweto In Gauteng province, the epicentre of the country’s devastating third wave. “It’s [getting vaccinated] gonna make a big difference. I mean,…
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COVID-19 Death Toll Rises To 43% In One Week
The World Health Organization has revealed that Covid-19 fatalities driven by the lack of intensive-care beds and oxygen in Africa have now reached a new 43% high in a space of one week. Coronavirus-linked deaths in the WHO’s African region, which includes North Africa, rose to 6,273 in the week of July 5-11, compared with…
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COVID-19 Third Wave: Nigeria Runs Out Of Vaccine
Nigeria might be experiencing the third wave of Covid-19 infections as predicted by the World Health Organization, following reports of a rise in infection rates and the presence of the infamous Delta variant as reported by Nigeria’s National Centre For Disease Control (NCDC). Until last week, Nigeria was recording fewer than 40 cases daily on…
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What Is The Delta Variant? All You Need To Know Visualized In Pidgin
Africa Centres For Disease Control (CDC) has reported a 40% in hospitalization in Africa and a daily record high infection rates in the country. The new more transmissible Delta variant is believed to be the reason behind this vicious third wave. First detected in India, this highly contagious (and possibly more severe) SARS-CoV-2 virus strain has now…
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Concern Grows Over Third Wave of COVID-19 In Africa
The Africa Centres for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned about rising Covid-19 infection and fatality rates across the continent. New covid-19 cases have been increasing for six weeks running, rising by an average of 25% week-on-week to a cumulative 5,775,157 this week. African nations combined saw a daily average…
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Visualization Of The Global COVID-19 Vaccine Divide
So far, 23.7% of the world population has received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, while 3.13 billion doses have been administered globally. 40.07 million are given every day, according to Our World in Data, a non-profit online scientific publication based at the University of Oxford. More than 12 months after the World Health Organization declared the…
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UNICEF Orders 220 million COVAX For African Countries
The United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund has signed an agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV to supply an additional 220 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson single dose COVID-19 vaccine to all 55-member states of the African Union by the end of 2022. This agreement would increase the total number of doses to 400…
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Coronavirus: Ghana In Dire Need Of Vaccines
According to official figures from Ghana Health Services, three hundred ninety-six thousand seven hundred fifty-nine (396,759) Ghanaian residents have received both doses of the AstraZeneca Coronavirus vaccine, making up only 1.3% of the nation’s population of 30 million. The Director-General of the GHS, Dr Patrick Kuma-Aboagye on Sunday, July 4, 2021, announced that as of…
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Vaccine: World Bank Gives $4bn to 51 Countries
The World Bank has stated that it has provided a fund of over $4 billion for the purchase and deployment of COVID-19 Vaccine to 51 countries– with over half in Africa. This was contained in a press statement released by the bank titled ‘World Bank financing for COVID-19 vaccine rollout exceeds $4bn for 50 countries’…