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Jan

2021

Pope Francis to have COVID-19 vaccine as early as next week

POPE Francis plans to be vaccinated against COVID-19 as early as next week and urged everyone to get a shot, to protect not only their own lives but those of others. "I believe that ethically everyone should take the vaccine," the Pope said in an interview with TV station Canale 5. "It is an ethical choice because you are gambling with your health, with your life, but you are also gambling with the lives of others." Vatican City, the smallest independent county in the world, home to about 450 people including Pope Francis, has said it will shortly launch its own…

Dec

2020

By The African Mirror

Celebrated French DJ tells fans ahead of Louvre gig: ‘get the vaccine’

ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT

FRENCH DJ David Guetta said he hoped everybody would get vaccinated against COVID-19, shortly before recording a charity concert outside the Louvre Museum in Paris that will be streamed on New Year's Eve. Guetta, known for his collaborations over nearly two decades with artists such as Akon, J Balvin, Nicki Minaj and Kelly Rowland, is raising money for UNICEF and French charity Les Restos du Coeur, which provides food and meals to people in need. "I'm going to do the vaccine, and I hope people are going to do it too because I don't see any other way to go…

Dec

2020

By The African Mirror

Vaccinating the world: Lessons learned from India, Haiti and Sierra Leone

COVID-19

ANASTASIA MOLONEY ROLLING out COVID-19 vaccines to billions of people across the world means managing the most complex supply chains the world has ever seen. But valuable lessons are there to be learned including from India where hundreds of millions of children are vaccinated against diseases every year and Sierra Leone where people received Ebola shots after the deadly disease outbreak in 2014. We asked public health experts and a community health worker who survived Ebola how they ensure vaccines reach those most in need. INCLUDE WOMEN Globally about 70% of health workers are female, and women are often the…

Dec

2020

By The African Mirror

“20-million Americans could be vaccinated this year”

WORLD

THE U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) expects to move quickly after a December 10 review of the coronavirus vaccine developed by Pfizer and 20 million Americans could be vaccinated this year, its commissioner has revealed. FDA Commissioner Stephen Hahn declined to give a specific timeline of how long approval of the vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech would take but said that he hoped there would be a decision by the regulator in December. As soon as the FDA approves a vaccine, "I will be first in line and I will encourage my family to take this vaccine," Hahn…