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Tanzania to spend $470 million on vaccines

Tanzania to spend $470 million on vaccines

TANZANIA will spend $470 million buying vaccines and supporting economic sectors hit hard by the coronavirus, President Samia Suluhu Hassan said has announced. Since Hassan took office after the death of then-president John Magufuli in March, the government has changed tack from playing down the pandemic to calling for social distancing and emphasising mask wearing in public. Issuing the first data on infections since May 2020, Hassan said there were more than 100 COVID-19 patients in Tanzania as of last Saturday, with 70 of them being provided oxygen. Half of the cash will be spent on vaccines, protective gear and…
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South‌ ‌Africa‌ ‌produces‌ ‌its‌ ‌first‌ ‌ventilators‌ ‌to‌ ‌fight‌ ‌COVID-19

South‌ ‌Africa‌ ‌produces‌ ‌its‌ ‌first‌ ‌ventilators‌ ‌to‌ ‌fight‌ ‌COVID-19

WENDELL ROELF THE first of thousands of South African-designed ventilators rolled off a Cape Town assembly line on Friday, responding to requests from hospitals needing them for severe COVID-19 cases but unable to get them on global markets, officials said. Poorly resourced hospitals across Africa, which is nearing a million cases of COVID-19 -- more than half of them in South Africa -- have struggled to cope with a burgeoning caseload amid a global scramble favouring richer nations in procuring ventilators and protective gear. South Africa, which now has the world's fifth highest infection burden of around 482,169 confirmed cases,…
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