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Mar
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Sudan to start vaccine rollout

Sudan to start vaccine rollout

COVID-19
SUDAN will begin vaccinating health care workers followed by people aged 45 or older with chronic conditions for free next week after becoming the first country in the Middle East and North Africa to benefit from COVAX facility vaccines. Sudan received 828,000 doses of the AstraZeneca-produced vaccine on Wednesday at Khartoum airport, a health ministry official said. The delivery follows that of 4.5 metric tonnes of syringes and disposal boxes through COVAX in late February. Sudan says it expects to receive the remainder of a total 3.4 million doses through COVAX, a vaccine-sharing programme co-led by the World Health Organization,…
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Mar
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Egypt expands vaccine rollout

Egypt expands vaccine rollout

COVID-19
EGYPT yesterday expanded its coronavirus vaccination rollout to include the elderly and people with chronic diseases after several weeks of vaccinating medical staff, the cabinet said. Nearly 153,000 people have applied for vaccinations since Sunday when the North African country opened online registration, the cabinet said in a statement. Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country with more than 100 million, has prepared 40 vaccination centres and plans to increase that number after the arrival of more vaccine batches, Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly said. Egypt received 350,000 doses of a coronavirus vaccine developed by China National Pharmaceutical Group (Sinopharm) in…
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Mar
05
2021
By The African Mirror
How DRC youth survive COVID-19 impact

How DRC youth survive COVID-19 impact

COVID-19
JORDAN MAYENIKINI CONGOLESE teenager Bienvenu dreams of owning a clothing business but spends his days illegally driving a motorbike taxi in busy Kinshasa to support his family during the COVID-19 pandemic. Navigating traffic and dodging cops in the Democratic Republic of Congo's capital, the 16-year-old has been working as an underage moto-taxi driver - the legal minimum age is 18 - since his uncle lost his travel agency job five months ago. Bienvenu is one of thousands of Congolese children estimated by charities to have joined the labour force over the last year due to the new coronavirus. As schools…
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Mar
05
2021
By The African Mirror
Small things can save lives: coping with COVID-19 in resource-scarce hospitals

Small things can save lives: coping with COVID-19 in resource-scarce hospitals

HEALTH
EVERYWHERE, patients have died from COVID-19 when patient numbers exceeded the capacity of the health system. The number of doctors, nurses and oxygen points just wasn’t enough. GILLES VAN CUTSEM, Honorary Research Associate, Centre for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, University of Cape Town People died from a lack of oxygen because no one noticed that their oxygen mask wasn’t well-positioned or that their oxygen saturation was dropping. They died of dehydration or kidney failure because they didn’t receive enough water. They died because there wasn’t enough staff, or because new staff added in an emergency were inexperienced and poorly…
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Mar
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Senegal receives its first COVAX vaccines

Senegal receives its first COVAX vaccines

COVID-19
SENEGAL received 324,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine early yesterday as the COVAX global distribution scheme accelerates delivery of the shots to the world's poorest countries. The doses will add to the west African country's stock of 200,000 vaccines it bought from China's Sinopharm to launch the first phase of its inoculation campaign. Around 40,000 people, including President Macky Sall have received the Sinopharm vaccine since the start of the campaign last week. Senegal is eligible for around 1.3 million doses for free in the first wave of disbursement from the COVAX progamme, which is backed by the World…
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Mar
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Latest on the worldwide spread of the COVID-19

Latest on the worldwide spread of the COVID-19

COVID-19
US President Joe Biden said on Tuesday the United States would have enough COVID-19 vaccine for every American adult by the end of May. The first doses of the Pfizer shots to be dispatched to Africa under the global COVAX vaccine-sharing scheme arrived in Rwanda yesterday. DEATHS AND INFECTIONS * Eikon users, see COVID-19: MacroVitals for a case tracker and summary of news. EUROPE * The European Union aims to increase the region's COVID-19 vaccine production capacity to 2-3 billion doses per year by the end of 2021, Industry Commissioner Thierry Breton was quoted as saying. * German Chancellor Angela…
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Mar
04
2021
By The African Mirror
Kenya calls first vaccines ‘bazookas’, Rwanda secures Pfizer shots

Kenya calls first vaccines ‘bazookas’, Rwanda secures Pfizer shots

COVID-19
OMAR MOHAMMED and CLEMENT UWIRIGIYIMANA KENYA received over a million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday, while Rwanda said it was the first in Africa to secure shots from Pfizer, as efforts to inoculate the world's poorest nations accelerated. With fewer resources and tougher logistics than other regions, African nations are racing to secure the doses needed to protect their roughly 1.3 billion people and allow the safe reopening of economies. Africa has been relatively lightly hit by the coronavirus relative to other regions, recording 104,000 deaths, according to a Reuters tally, That is lower than national tallies…
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Mar
24
2021
By The African Mirror
WTO DG “disappointed” in EU vaccine export restrictions

WTO DG “disappointed” in EU vaccine export restrictions

COVID-19
THE director-general of the World Trade Organization has expressed her disappointment in the European Union's export authorisation scheme for COVID-19 vaccines, saying that she was talking to them about this measure. "While we understand the politics of what they are doing - I have said openly I am disappointed, particularly in the fact that they extended it from March," Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala said at a WTO online event, saying export restrictions must be temporary. Under the scheme, which is to be extended through June, companies must get an authorisation before exporting COVID-19 shots, and may have export requests denied if they…
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Mar
24
2021
By The African Mirror
Russia tests one-dose ‘light’ in UAE, Ghana

Russia tests one-dose ‘light’ in UAE, Ghana

COVID-19
POLINA NIKOLSKAYA and EMILIO PARODI RUSSIAN developers of the Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 have applied for domestic approval of a single-dose "light" version, and that trials of it in Russia, the United Arab Emirates and Ghana have already begun. The slimmed-down shot is not expected to be as effective as the original vaccine, said Arsen Kubataev, of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, the sovereign wealth fund marketing the vaccine abroad. But the outlook for it is "optimistic", he said. RDIF has previously suggested the one-shot version of Sputnik V could be a "temporary" solution for countries with high infections…
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