London, May 16, 2021 (AltAfrica)-African countries have acquired 38.03 million Covid-19 vaccines so far, according to figures released by the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) The Africa CDC, the specialised healthcare agency of the 55-member African Union, said 22.4 million Covid-19 doses have been administered, out of the over 38.03 million ...

London, May 15, 2021 (AltAfrica)-As African leaders spoke at the High-level Virtual Dialogue on Feeding Africa last week, one thing stood out; Africa knows its food systems are caught in a mare’s nest. Nonetheless, the 17 heads of state attending the event organised to galvanise action around ending hunger and malnutrition on the continent by ...

London, May 4, 2021 (AltAfrica)-13 African countries are seeking participants to test a new drug to treat people with mild to moderate forms of Covid-19 before their cases become severe. Already, the first participants in the new study arm have been recruited in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Republic of Guinea. In ...

London, April 30, 2021 (AltAfrica)–Moderna, one of three companies to have a COVID-19 vaccine authorized in the U.S., isn’t resting on its accomplishments but is instead working to scale up production further and improve on its vaccine. One of the downsides of the vaccine initially was its cold-storage requirements. It is approved for storage at between 36 ...

London, March 19, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Several days after most EU countries suspended the use of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine over blood clot concerns, the bloc’s medicines regulator concluded Thursday the vaccine is safe and effective in preventing COVID-19 and its benefits far outweigh the risks — but it could not eliminate a possible link to a rare type ...

London, March 4, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Covax has finally ended Africa’s long wait for the Covid-19 vaccine with a floodgate of vaccines in the last one week The floodgates began with Ghana and its West African neighbour,Ivory Coast becoming the world’s first states to administer vaccines from COVAX, a global scheme to procure free coronavirus jabs for ...

London, March 3, 2021 (AltAfrica)-An emergency covid vaccine fund to help about 30 African countries access COVID-19 vaccines is underway from the World Bank as the continent scrambles to secure doses and start immunising vulnerable groups. African countries expected to benefit from the emergency vaccine fund include the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Niger, Mozambique, ...

London, Feb. 22, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Five countries in all have given authorization for the role out of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccines. Two from north Africa and three in Sub-Saharan Africa. A February 20, 2021 statement from the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF), the country’s sovereign wealth fund announced that Sputnik V had been granted emergency ...

London, Feb. 16, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Morocco and Zimbabwe are taken delivery of Covid-19 vaccines as vaccination takes off fully and progressing well Across African countries Zimbabwe is the latest to join the fray as President Emmerson Mnangagwa received his country’s first batch of COVID-19 vaccines on Monday READ ALSO: DRC BEGINS IMMEDIATE EBOLA VACCINATION AS GUINEA ...

London, Feb. 5, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Africa will receive nearly 90 million COVID-19 vaccine doses from COVAX in February 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) African region said on Thursday.  To complement COVAX efforts, the African Union has secured 670 million vaccine doses for the continent which will be distributed in 2021 and 2022 as countries secure ...