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 ...

London, Jan. 25, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Africa finally joined the global covid-19 vaccination with three African countries-Egypt, Guinea, Seychelles rolling out vaccination at different speed The island nation of Seychelles became the first country in Africa to roll out its mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign, with the country’s political leaders and health workers taking the vaccine President Wavel Ramkalawan, who ...

London, Jan. 21, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Under the AU led vaccine initiative, Nigeria and other African countries will have to pay between $3 to $10 per COVID-19 vaccine dose to access 270 million shots secured by the African Union. This is according to a proposal on the plan prepared by the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank), Reuters reported Wednesday. READ ...

London, Jan. 12, 2021(AltAfrica)-The World Bank is ready to invest over $5 billion over the next five years to help restore degraded landscapes, improve agriculture productivity, and promote livelihoods in 11 African countries as they recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. World Bank Group President David Malpass on Monday said the investment would help improve livelihoods ...

London, Jan. 11, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Africa passed the milestone of 3 million confirmed cases COVID-19 on Sunday, including more than 72,000 deaths, according to the Africa Centre for Disease Control and Prevention. eople. The high proportion of cases in South Africa, could be because the country carries out more tests than many other African countries. READ ...

London, Dec. 31, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Air France-KLM has reintroduced an Airport Transit Visa for citizens of some countries, including Nigeria and Ghana, travelling to the United Kingdom after Brexit. The airline said this in a statement titled, ‘Travel on Air France or KLM to and from the United Kingdom after Brexit – January 1, 2020’. According ...