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Feb
24
2022
By The African Mirror
COVID vaccine supply for global programme outstrips demand for first time

COVID vaccine supply for global programme outstrips demand for first time

COVID-19
FRANCESCO GUARASCIO and JENNIFER RIGBY THE global project to share COVID-19 vaccines is struggling to place more than 300 million doses in the latest sign the problem with vaccinating the world is now more about demand than supply. Last year, wealthy nations snapped most of the available shots to inoculate their own citizens first, meaning less than a third of people in low-income countries have been vaccinated so far compared with more than 70% in richer nations. As supply and donations have ramped up, however, poorer nations are facing hurdles such as gaps in cold-chain shortage, vaccine hesitancy and a…
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Sep
30
2021
By The African Mirror
SA reduces COVID-19 restrictions to lowest level

SA reduces COVID-19 restrictions to lowest level

NEWS
AFRICAN MIRROR REPORTER BOUYED by decreasing infection and hospitalisation rates, impressive progress in vaccinating the nation as well as the desire to return to normal, South Africa has relaxed COVID-19 restrictions, unveiling measures aimed at boosting an economy devastated by the pandemic. In a special address to the nation, SA president Cyril Ramaphosa has announced that the country's lockdown level has been adjusted to its lowest level. Ramaphosa also announced that the government will be issuing vaccination certificates to those who are fully vaccinated. Ramaphosa announced that in terms of the new Lockdown Level One, the following restrictions will apply: Sale…
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May
25
2021
By The African Mirror
Bid to end ‘scandalous vaccine inequity’

Bid to end ‘scandalous vaccine inequity’

COVID-19
STEPHANIE NEBEHAY THE COVID-19 pandemic is being perpetuated by a "scandalous inequity" in vaccine distribution, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said yesterday as he set new targets for protecting people in the poorest countries. WHO director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warned that no country should assume that it's "out of the woods", no matter its vaccination rate, as long as the SARS-CoV-2 virus and its variants spread elsewhere. "The world remains in a very dangerous situation," Tedros told the opening of the annual assembly of health ministers from its 194 member states. "As of today, more cases have…
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May
18
2021
By The African Mirror
‘It’s going to change our country’: South Africa starts vaccinating over-60s

‘It’s going to change our country’: South Africa starts vaccinating over-60s

COVID-19
AKHONA MATSHOBA and SHAFIEK TASSIEM HOPE and excitement gripped the Munsieville care home in the South African mining city of Krugersdorp yesterday when people over the age of 60 were called to receive the COVID-19 vaccine for the first time. "It's going to change our country for the better," Caroline Nicholls, 64, a judge, told Reuters while waiting to get her first dose of the Pfizer vaccine. "I am very excited to finally be here today," said Ellen Segope, 65, a pensioner who lives nearby. In Cape Town, celebrated anti-apartheid activist and cleric Desmond Tutu was among those vaccinated. South…
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Feb
24
2021
By The African Mirror
Senegal begins vaccinating

Senegal begins vaccinating

COVID-19
DIADE BA and NGOUDA DIONE SENEGAL began its coronavirus vaccination campaign yesterday, with 200,000 doses that it purchased from China's Sinopharm, which it received last week. The first shots were given to government ministers and health workers at the health ministry in the capital, Dakar. The West African country is one of the first in the region to start vaccinating its population against COVID-19. It has so far recorded 33,242 cases and 832 deaths from the disease. "We are going to continue so that all the Senegalese who must be vaccinated can be," said Health Minister Abdoulaye Diouf Sarr in…
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Nov
19
2020
By The African Mirror
WHO says vaccinating 20% of Latin America and Caribbean to cost more than $2 billion

WHO says vaccinating 20% of Latin America and Caribbean to cost more than $2 billion

WORLD
ANTHONY BOADLE  VACCINATING 20% of the population of Latin America and the Caribbean against COVID-19 will cost more than $2 billion but low-income countries will be helped by the COVAX Facility led by the World Health Organization, its regional branch said on Wednesday. According to the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), COVAX aims to deploy at least 2 billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of 2021. "This is a remarkable figure. But we also know that it won't be sufficient to vaccinate everyone, at least not at first," , PAHO Assistant Director Jarbas Barbosa said. PAHO is working…
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