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Global Airline Industry Records $201Bn In COVID-Related Losses
The International Air Transport Association has set the combined losses for the industry at over $200 billion as travel curbs weigh on corporate and long-haul demand well into 2022. According to the industry’s main body, airline carriers are set to post a collective deficit of $11.6 billion for next year, due to the very slow…
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Morocco Offers Covid-19 Vaccine Booster Shots
Morocco’s newly launched vaccination campaign aims at providing a third dose of anti covid vaccine to people who have received at least two doses of the vaccine in not less than six months. Relevant authorities shared that the decision follows the recommendations of the Scientific and Technical Committee of vaccination as well as international scientific…
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Burundi Launches Free Covid-19 Testing For Students
The government of Burundi has begun a compulsory Covid-19 testing campaign for all pupils in boarding schools. This initiative will last until 14 September. One of these screening centres is in the Ntahangwa community, north of Bujumbura. Parents, teachers and pupils responded massively to the campaign as reports show that queues began to form in…
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South Africa To Launch COVID Vaccine Passports
The South African government has announced the introduction of a “vaccine passport” idea, amid widespread mistrust of the Covid-19 vaccine in the country. President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Sunday in a televised address that the passport would serve as proof of vaccination for various purposes and events. While he promised that more information about the…
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Nigeria Received Over 9 million COVID-19 Vaccine In 6 Months
Between March and August, Nigeria has received a total of 9,916,320 doses of Covid-19 vaccines, Twentyten Daily tracked. Within this period, Nigeria received four types of vaccine; Oxford-AstraZeneca, Mordena Vaccine, Johnson and Johnson and Covishield COVID-19 Vaccine. A total of 5,338,640 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine was given within the period; 4,000,080 Morderna doses; 177,600 doses…
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Variant Alert: Scientists Discover Lambda Covid-19 Variant
21 months into the Covid-19 pandemic and the world is used to news of new variants of the virus, particularly those that have, one by one, supplanted previous versions of the disease. In recent months, mutations like the delta variant have usurped other mutations like the alpha variant in terms of transmissibility and the potential to cause hospitalizations in…
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Nigeria Flags-off Second Phase Vaccination Exercise
Nigeria has begun the second phase of its vaccination exercise against the Covid-19 virus. The exercise is coming at a time where the country has begun to record increasing cases of the virus in the last one month. Speaking at the flag-off ceremony held at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Jabi Abuja, the Secretary to…
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The Struggle For Covid-19 Vaccines In Uganda
Uganda’s struggle to access vaccines to reach its target of inoculating 22 million people seems to be at no immediate end as the world’s rich nations continue to hold onto vaccine doses. The country has only received some 2 million doses of AstraZeneca’s vaccine and 300,000 doses of the Chinese-developed Sinovac shot since inoculation began…
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Ivory Coast Records First Case Of Ebola In 25 Years
Health Minister, Pierre N’Gou Dimba, has announced the country first Ebola case in 25 years. Dimba publicly shared that officials confirmed the case after testing samples from an 18-year-old female who travelled from neighbouring Guinea. “This is an isolated and imported case,” he said, adding that the patient was currently being treated in intensive care…
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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,…