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Côte d’Ivoire receives 1.6 million doses of vaccines from

Ivory Coast has been mobilized for a week on its first Ebola case and has not forgotten the Covid-19 pandemic. The number of new cases is increasing again and "We must vaccinate" is the government's watchword to quickly turn the corner. Nearly 1.6 million doses of Pfizer vaccine, funded by the Covax unit, were delivered to Côte d'Ivoire overnight from Friday to Saturday.…

millions of doses produced in South Africa sent

In South Africa, organizations fighting for fair access to vaccines against revelations are rising in a New York Times article describing how at least 32 million doses of Johnson & Johnson packaged on site at the local Aspen plant have been exported to Europe. as reported from Johannesburg, Claire BargelèsJohnson &…

Gordon Brown demands that more doses be sent to Africa

Anger from former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown over Western vaccine policy. In a column published by The Guardian on Monday, August 16, he urges leaders to convene a summit to address the shortage of vaccines in Africa while billions of doses are administered elsewhere. It is a monumental failure in the West, a "pause",…

Pfizer / BioNTech produces 100 million doses

After Johnson & Johnson allied itself with Aspen, it is Pfizer / BioNTech's turn to partner with a South African company to produce its anticovid vaccine. The manufacturer has signed an agreement with the Biovac Institute, a semi-state company based in Cape Town. This will be the first time a Messenger RNA vaccine has been produced in Africa. Target: 100 million doses per year by 2023. Production…

Burkina Faso gets its first doses of

A gift that is part of the Covax initiative in which the country is involved. According to the program planned by the Ministry of Health, vaccination is scheduled to start in the first week of June and will affect healthcare professionals, people living with morbidity and pilgrimage to Mecca. as reported from Ouagadougou, Yaya…

Malawi burns off virtually 17,000 expired doses

Whereas vaccination campaigns are accelerating in some international locations, they're stagnating in others. LeMalawi needed to destroy almost 17,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine on Wednesday. Doses with out recipients that stopped expiring. A whole of 16,910 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine have been cremated on the Central…

South Africa resells its doses of the vaccine

The South African government turned away from this vaccine in early February following the findings of a small local study. She pointed out an ineffectiveness of moderate forms of the disease due to the South African variant. The government, which had spent almost seven million euros on acquiring these doses, did not want to waste them at any cost.…

The Comoros obtained their first doses of

These are 100,000 doses from China in a specially chartered charter with a team of medical experts on board. President Azali accompanied by members of the government came in person to receive this donation. The Chinese Ambassador to the Comoros recalled the need for available and affordable vaccines for all, including developing countries. The vaccination campaign will start in the coming days.…

Somalia receives 300,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccine

MOGADISHU, Somalia - Somalia on Monday received its first shipment of 300,000 doses of the Oxford / AstraZeneca vaccine, intended for frontline workers and those most at risk for Covid-19, the government said in a statement. The conflict-torn nation has seen coronavirus cases rise 77 percent over the past month to 9,190, while deaths have more than doubled to a total of 367. "The arrival of the Covid-19 vaccines comes at a critical time as Somalia is now experiencing a new wave of the epidemic," Health Minister Fawziya…

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