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Africa in need of test kits, vaccines as monkeypox spreads

Africa in need of test kits, vaccines as monkeypox spreads

BHARGAV ACHARYA and NELLIE PEYTON AFRICA has no vaccines for monkeypox and test kits are in short supply, international health agencies said, warning that richer countries already appeared to be hoarding vaccines. Monkeypox is a viral disease that causes flu-like symptoms and skin lesions. It is endemic in parts of Africa but has also recently been reported in countries with no history of human transmission, including Ghana, Morocco and South Africa. "The geographic spread of monkeypox to parts of Africa where cases have never been detected before is a worrying sign," said Dr Matshidiso Moeti, the World Health Organization (WHO)…
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Stop hoarding COVID vaccines, South Africa’s Ramaphosa tells rich countries

Stop hoarding COVID vaccines, South Africa’s Ramaphosa tells rich countries

ALEXANDER WINNING SOUTH African President Cyril Ramaphosa urged wealthy countries not to hoard surplus doses of COVID-19 vaccine, saying the world needed to come together to fight the pandemic. South Africa has recorded nearly half the coronavirus deaths in Africa, and the continent as a whole is struggling to secure sufficient vaccines to start countrywide inoculation programmes for its 1.3-billion people. "We need those who have hoarded the vaccines to release the vaccines so that other countries can have them," Ramaphosa told a virtual meeting of the World Economic Forum. "The rich countries of the world went out and acquired…
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