Coronavirus

According to healthcare professionals, people with comorbidity, all citizens over the age of 30 and beyond, can be vaccinated since Monday in Togo. Several vaccine nodes have been set up and are waiting for citizens who are struggling to emerge. as reported from Lomé, Peter Sassou DogbéSamani Bitem has just been vaccinated at…

The health authorities have chosen Rosso, in the south, a city on the border with Senegal, to officially start the vaccination in the province on Monday 19 April. As was the case on March 26 in Nouakchott, vaccination operations target medical staff, the elderly and patients with chronic pathologies. as reported from…

Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), launched on Monday, April 19, in Kinshasa, the vaccination campaign against Covid-19. Despite the controversy and controversy that the AstraZeneca vaccine has sparked around the world and the media, the Congolese authorities have kept it for the campaign, after an initial launch, as a precautionary measure. The green light was given during a ceremony, in the absence…

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the African Union (AU) each have their own strategies, but some countries do not wait for them to obtain directly from manufacturers, receive donations or produce locally under foreign patents. Two countries in Africa, Egypt and Nigeria, have decided to fund research to find their own vaccine against coronavirus. The Egyptian…

Morocco has chosen a mass vaccination campaign aimed at 80% of the population. He is fast: in less than three months, more than 12% of Moroccans have been vaccinated. His strategy? Expectation and control. Morocco started the vaccine race in the summer of 2020, with the Chinese, and has since multiplied sources of supply and so far avoided shortages of doses.…

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) officially launches its coronavirus vaccination campaign this Monday, April 19th. The ceremony will take place at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Kinshasa. This means that the first doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine were inoculated on 2 March via the Covax mechanism. as…

In Senegal, health authorities have to face skepticism from some sections of the population. Since the start of the campaign in late February, they have first administered the Chinese Sinopharm vaccine, followed by the doses of AstraZenecan as part of the global Covax initiative. But despite easy access, there are not many in the vaccination center.…

Republican President Andry Rajoelina spoke on television and national radio on Sunday evening, April 18, announcing new, stricter measures to combat the spread of Covid-19, which is saturating hospitals and treatment centers opened specifically for coronavirus patients. The state of health will be renewed in the next two weeks.…

While some countries have not launched their vaccination campaign against Covid-19, others today are at the gates of collective immunity, just like Israel. RFI dedicates a special day to vaccination around the world on Monday 19 April. They will be able to return from May 23 on the beaches of Tel Aviv. Tourists will soon be able to re-enter Israeli territory. The consequence of the vaccination campaign started in December last year and which made it possible to control the pandemic locally. Israel would now be close to…

The World Food Program (WFP) is sounding the alarm about rising food prices in West Africa, a region already weakened by conflict. It could drive more than 31 million people to food insecurity as the lean season approaches. In West and Central Africa, WFP is calling avoid a "food disaster". More than 31 million people in the region are expected to become food safe in the region, a figure more than 30% higher than last year. And according to WFP, this figure represents the highest level in almost ten years. On average,…