London, June 12, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Zipline, arguably the world’s biggest drone delivery service for medical supplies, has commenced a partnership with Pfizer to test and develop an end-to-end distribution solution for Covid-19 vaccines, the firm has announced. The firm had earlier this year revealed that they were building a delivery solution to distribute Covid-19 vaccines in countries where ...

London, June 11, 2021 (AltAfrica)-A Pakistan province said Friday it will block the mobile phones of people refusing to get Covid-19 jabs, in the latest move to penalise the unvaccinated in a country where only a fraction of the population have been inoculated. It comes after Sindh province said civil servants who refuse to be ...

London, June 5, 2021 (AltAfrica)-South African Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has announced 5 668 new coronavirus infections, taking South Africa’s total cases to over 1.68 million since last March. He also announced that 67 people had succumbed to the virus, with the Gauteng, Free State and Western Cape provinces having the most deaths on Friday. ...

London, June 4, 2021 (AltAfrica)-World Health Organization Regional Director for Africa Dr. Matshidiso Moeti has stated that a total of 31 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been administered in African countries, adding that only seven million Africans have received the full dose of the vaccine. This reinforces growing concerns that shortages in many African countries ...

London, May 27, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that vaccinated kids aged 12 to 17 will have a chance to win a full ride to public universities and colleges in New York. The state will raffle off 50 scholarships, which would cover four years of tuition, room and board, books and supplies. Parents with ...

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, April 20, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Madagascar is now going for covid vaccines and has finally abandoned its herbal remedy and in negotiation to acquire four different covid-19 vaccine to tackle its growing pandemic READ ALSO: MALAWI FIRES LABOUR MINISTER, ARRESTS 14 SENIOR OFFICIALS OVER MISUSE OF COVID FUNDS On Monday, move was finally confirmed by President ...

London, April 10, 2021 (AltAfrica)-New data released by Our World in Data revealed that Morocco fully vaccinated 11% of its population and leads Africa in the vaccination campaign against COVID-19. The kingdom administered at least one dose of the vaccine to 12% of the entire population. In comparison, other continental leaders such as South Africa and Zimbabwe ...

London, March 31, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Egypt’s Health Minister Hala Zayed announced on Tuesday that Egypt would receive a new batch of 854,000 coronavirus vaccine doses through the COVAX vaccine-sharing programme starting Wednesday. The health minister discussed the current situation of all the vaccines Egypt had received so far at the meeting of the Cabinet’s Coronavirus Crisis ...

London, March 29, 2021 (AltAfrica)-The biggest vaccination campaign in history is underway. More than 535 million doses have been administered across 141 countries, according to data collected by Bloomberg. The latest rate was roughly 14.5 million doses a day. In the U.S., more Americans have received at least one dose than have tested positive for the virus since the pandemic began. So far, 143 million doses have ...