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Nearly 3 mln Malawian children to get polio shot after rare outbreak

Nearly 3 mln Malawian children to get polio shot after rare outbreak

MEDICS will vaccinate about 2.9 million young children against polio in Malawi, the United Nations said, after a three-year-old girl fell sick in the capital with Africa's first case of wild poliovirus in more than five years. The southern African country declared a polio outbreak two weeks ago after tests confirmed the infection and showed the strain was linked to one circulating in Pakistan, where it is still endemic. "The resurgence of the wild poliovirus in Malawi ... is cause for serious concern," Rudolf Schwenk, the head of the U.N. children's agency UNICEF in Malawi, said in a statement. "Vaccination…
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‘Our call-to-action to every South African is to vaccinate to reduce the rates of infections, hospitalisation and deaths’

‘Our call-to-action to every South African is to vaccinate to reduce the rates of infections, hospitalisation and deaths’

DAVID MABUZA  WE are honoured to be joined by leaders in business, sport, and the creative sectors in our society in a collaborative partnership to encourage and mobilise our communities to vaccinate. As we navigate the tribulations and devastating impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are inspired by the voices and messages from our artists, our sporting heroes and heroines, as well as leaders of various sporting bodies and cultural organisations. In unison, they are all calling on everyone to vaccinate. We have partnered in our collective commitment to fight against the Covid-19 pandemic by ensuring that we reach out…
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Egypt aims to vaccinate 40% of population

Egypt aims to vaccinate 40% of population

EGYPT aims to vaccinate 40% of its population against coronavirus by the end of 2021, the prime minister said in a televised address yesterday. By the end of Wednesday, 2.5 million people will have been vaccinated from a total of 6 million people who signed up on the government's registration platform, Mostafa Madbouly said. The first batch of locally-made vaccines will be ready in July, he added.
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‘COVID-19 Billionaires should pay for the poor’

‘COVID-19 Billionaires should pay for the poor’

NITA BHALLA  COVID-19 vaccine profits have created at least nine billionaires whose combined wealth would be enough to inoculate all of the world's poor, a coalition of charities and activists said yesterday, calling for a more equitable distribution of jabs. The new billionaires - who include senior executives from U.S. firm Moderna Inc and China's CanSino Biologics - have a net worth of $19.3 billion between them, according to the People's Vaccine Alliance. That sum would be more than enough to fully vaccinate all the people in low-income countries, the alliance said, urging pharmaceutical companies to end their "monopoly" over…
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