Plea to save Africa’s only Covid-19 factory
AFRICA’S top public health body urged all those purchasing COVID-19 vaccines for the continent to place orders with South Africa’s
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Ghana to start producing own Covid-19 vaccines in January 2024
GHANA will start producing its own COVID-19 vaccines in January 2024, President Nana Akufo-Addo said in his State of the
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How drug companies are sidestepping the WHO’s technology transfer hub in Africa
PHARMACEUTICAL company Moderna announced on 7 March 2022 that it would develop a site in Kenya to manufacture COVID-19 vaccines.
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COVID vaccine supply for global programme outstrips demand for first time
FRANCESCO GUARASCIO and JENNIFER RIGBY THE global project to share COVID-19 vaccines is struggling to place more than 300 million
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Africa calls for donated vaccines with shelf life of 3 to 6 months
ALEXANDER WINNING AFRICA’S top public health bodies called for donated COVID-19 vaccines to come with a shelf life of three
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Nigeria destroys 1 mln donated AstraZeneca vaccines with short shelf life
CAMILLUS EBOH NIGERIA on Wednesday destroyed more than a million doses of expired AstraZeneca vaccines in a bid to assure a
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Senegal ‘expects waste of 400 000 COVID-19 vaccines’
EDWARD McALLISTER AT least 200 000 COVID-19 vaccines have expired in Senegal without being used in the past two months
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WHO warns against vaccine hoarding as poorer countries go without
STEPHANIE NEBEHAY and JOSEPHINE MASON THE World Health Organization has warned wealthy countries against hoarding COVID-19 vaccines for booster shots
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Minister says Nigeria had only weeks to use some donated vaccines
LIBBY GEORGE NIGERIA’S health minister said on Wednesday some COVID-19 doses donated by rich Western countries had a shelf life
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Nigeria plans booster shots after first cases of Omicron variant
NIGERIA will start vaccine booster shots from next week for COVID-19, a senior official said, after the country confirmed its
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