Health

The South African government said it plans to vaccinate about 50 million people representing 67% of its population before the end of the current year. The info was given on January 3 by the health minister Dr. Zweli Mkhize during a press conference on the national vaccine rollout strategy. The …

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday announced a ban on alcohol sales and said mask-wearing would be mandatory in public as his country became the continent’s first to record one million coronavirus cases. Ramaphosa said during a televised speech that alcohol would be temporarily banned from midnight to help …

While several African countries are experiencing an uprise in the number of Covid-19 infections, the Africa Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced that as of Dec 11, 2020, the continent had a little more than 2.3 million cases and nearly 2 million recoveries with a death toll of 55,265 …

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation said on Thursday it had pledged $250 million in additional funding towards the global campaign to fight the coronavirus pandemic. Part of the funds will be channelled to the distribution of life-saving doses of Covid-19 vaccines to parts of Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. “We …

Africa has just surpassed the 2 million mark for covid-19, according to new figures published by the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This announcement comes at a time when the world is facing an upsurge in coronavirus cases. Across the planet, there are 55 million infections with 1.3 …

About 40 million Nigerian rural dwellers are affected with sleeping sickness otherwise known as trypanosomiasis. The Minster of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu disclosed this during the commissioning of the North-East zonal office of the Nigerian Institute for Trypanosomiasis Research (NITR), in Gombe in the weekend. According to the …

UNFPA, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency and Jumia Uganda, the country’s largest e-commerce platform have today announced a new partnership that aims to increase access to reproductive health commodities and information through Jumia’s platform. Consumers will conveniently and privately have access to a wide range of reproductive …

The government of Morocco said it will launch a vaccination campaign against Covid-19 as of November 15. According to local sources, the vaccine is developed by the Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinopharm. As a reminder, the two partners reached an agreement in late August for phase III clinical trials. According to …

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have called for urgent actions to protect most vulnerable children from deadly measles and polio epidemics as COVID-19 disrupts immunisations. The UN agencies made the call in a statement posted on WHO website. According to the statement, the agencies have issued …

Boris Johnson, prime minister of the United Kingdom, has announced a four-week national lockdown as part of efforts to curb the spread of the coronavirus. The lockdown will take effect from November 5 and last till the first week of December. Speaking at a press conference held on Saturday, the …