vaccination

South Africa has signed an agreement to buy 20 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech double-shot vaccine COVID-19, a senior government official said on Tuesday and increased plans to increase vaccinations this month. The deal is a boost for the country hardest hit by coronavirus infections in Africa, as it adds the 31 million doses of Johnson & Johnson's single shot vaccine that the government has already secured. The first batch from Pfizer is expected to arrive later in April, Anban Pillay, deputy…

In Mali, according to the care staff, it is now older or in the risk zone that can be vaccinated since Tuesday 6 April. A little less than a week ago, on Wednesday, March 31, Malia's healthcare campaign began by vaccinating the first, then it was medical staff who could benefit from the first doses. From our special…

In Mauritania, ten days after the medical staff, the vaccination campaign against Covid-19 on Monday was extended to the elderly with chronic pathologies. Medical teams have been mobilized in health centers to receive vaccine candidates. as reported from Nouakchott, Salem MejbourAt the Covid Pavilion at the National Hospital of…

Following the priority goals, vaccination against Covid-19 has been extended to everyone who presents to the various health centers. As of March 27, 225,309 people have been vaccinated across the country since the campaign began on February 23. While the country has received just over 700,000 doses in total, the question then arises of a future shortage of stock. The national stocks of the Department of Prevention and Supply Pharmacy are empty. All doses of Sinopharm and AstraZeneca vaccines were distributed in cold rooms…

Mauritania opened its vaccination campaign against Covid-19 on Friday 27 March with the Chinese product Sinopharm. 50,000 doses of the vaccine are a donation from the Chinese government. The Mauritanian president started the operation and started with the capital. as reported from Nouakchott, Salem Mejbour Salem The first doses were inoculated to physicians and healthcare professionals in contact with coronavirus patients at the Nouakchott National Hospital Center. The health ministers specified that the priority…

Developing countries such as African countries and Brazil announced that they will continue to use the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, despite the fact that the AstraZeneca vaccine has been discontinued in several European countries in the past week. There are not many options for each country when it comes to vaccination for economic reasons. As it stands now, it is either AstraZeneca or nothing for some poorer countries. The vaccine from the English-language pharmaceutical manufacturer is cheaper and…

Morocco ignores the vaccination of undocumented migrants in the country, even though it is one of the first countries to have a vaccination program in Africa. There was no official decision on the matter, even though tens of thousands of legal foreign residents have been vaccinated, according to a statement from an official from the Ministry of Health responsible for the vaccination campaign. The COVID-19 pandemic has ravaged Morocco's tourism sector and led to reduced industrial exports. The country…

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) received 1.7 million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine a week ago as part of the Covax program. However, the country has decided to postpone the "sinus die" start of its vaccination campaign, which was to start on Monday 15 March. This is a "precautionary measure" that several countries,…

In Tunisia, 30,000 doses of the Russian vaccine Sputnik V were received on Tuesday, March 9, to enable 15,000 people to be vaccinated. Vaccination centers have been opened in all 24 regions of the country. as reported from Tunis Michel PicardIt was during the dome of the sports palace El-Menzah in Tunis that the first doses…

More than 250,000 people received a first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine in Rwanda in one week. The country launched a vaccination campaign on Friday, March 5, after receiving about 340,000 doses as part of the Covax initiative, mainly from the Astra-Zeneca laboratory, but also from the Pfizer laboratory. For a week, photos of injections have followed each other in the media. There were first the nursing staff and the elderly, then prisoners, refugees, some motorcycle taxis, but also the staff of the national airline,…