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The third wave of Covid-19 in Africa has not yet reached its peak of infection, but already this wave is worse than the previous one according to the WHO, which is worried about the spread of the Delta variant. However, the Covax unit that will distribute vaccines to poor countries is at a standstill. Almost 251,000 new cases were discovered last week in Africa, 20% more than last week. At the same time, the continent is still facing a shortage of vaccines. The Covax unit, pilot piloted by WHO, thought to distribute doses…

"Not a dose, not an ampoule, has left a European factory for Africa," said the African Union's special envoy tasked with procuring COVID-19 vaccines for the continent, and criticizing Europe heavily as Africa struggles in the midst of a crushing third flood of infection. Strive Masiyiwa on Thursday also aimed at the global effort aimed at distributing vaccines to low- and middle-income countries and accused COVAX of withholding important information including key donors' failure to meet funding…

While many countries' fight against the coronavirus pandemic is already being challenged by vaccine shortages and weak healthcare infrastructure, doubts about the available vaccines in Africa are also slowing down inoculation, which serves as another obstacle to reducing the number of new cases. When Edith Serem received her COVID-19 vaccination last month at a Nairobi hospital where she works as a doctor, nurses jokingly warned that she could start speaking a foreign language. Serem said some…

The Democratic Republic of Congo has begun distributing hundreds of thousands of expired COVID-19 vaccines to other African countries because it will not be able to administer all doses before they expire at the end of June, its health minister said on Thursday. On Thursday afternoon, a plane from Angola picked up almost half a million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which had been delivered to Congo through the COVAX vaccine dispatch facility on March 2. Congo delayed launch after several European countries…

More African countries received the long-awaited first deliveries of COVID-19 vaccines on Wednesday, with Kenya and Rwanda benefiting from the global COVAX initiative aimed at securing doses for the world's low- and middle-income countries. African and other health officials have been frustrated by the sight of a handful of rich countries rolling out vaccines after taking large quantities for themselves. "We will be known as the continent COVID" if Africa does not quickly reach its goal of vaccinating…

Nearly 4 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have arrived in the Nigerian capital Abuja, the third and largest delivery to date to an African country through the global COVAX initiative, which was created to ensure that low- and middle-income countries have access to vaccines. The COVAX program sent 3.94 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine manufactured by the Serum Institute of India, from Mumbai to Abuja, according to a joint statement from UNICEF, working in collaboration with the World Health…

Ghana received the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from COVAX on Wednesday, a global scheme to obtain and distribute free vaccinations as the world competes to contain the pandemic. COVAX, launched in April last year to ensure a fairer distribution of coronavirus vaccines between rich and poor countries, said it would deliver 2 billion doses to its members by the end of the year. "We are pleased that Ghana has become the first country to receive COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX facility," said the…