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Africa To Receive First Batch Of Monkeypox Vaccine From South Korea
The Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has revealed the continent has received its first donation of monkeypox vaccine from South Korea. The first batch of 50,000 doses would be given to health workers and people living in the hardest-hit areas like Ghana, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria. There have been…
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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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Infographic: COVID-19 Vaccination In Africa
More than a year since the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the microscopic coronavirus has in many ways revealed the vulnerability of low-income countries, as well as their dependency on the global north. The virus might seem well under control, but the fact is, this is not the reality in many countries…