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    Global COVID-19 Experts See Inequitable Distribution and Vaccine Hesitancy as the Key Challenges for Africa in 2021

    Global COVID-19 Experts See Inequitable Distribution and Vaccine Hesitancy as the Key Challenges for Africa in 2021

    by TOA CorrespondentCOVID-19March 8, 2021March 8, 2021

    Ernest Darkoh Mass immunisations must be treated as a multi-year marathon, and vaccine hesitancy must be addressed before herd immunity can be achieved. – Dr Tim Mastro, chief scientist at…

    Ethiopia Receives the First AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine

    Ethiopia Receives the First AstraZeneca Covid-19 Vaccine

    by TOA CorrespondentCOVID-19East AfricaMarch 8, 2021March 8, 2021

    Today at Bole International, Ethiopian Airlines supplied the AstraZeneca vaccines licensed and produced by Serum Institute of India (SII). Ethiopia received 2.2 million AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines allocated by the COVAX…

    Nigeria: States Yet to Meet Conditions Won’t Get Covid-19 Vaccines

    Nigeria: States Yet to Meet Conditions Won’t Get Covid-19 Vaccines!

    by TOA CorrespondentCOVID-19West AfricaMarch 5, 2021March 5, 2021

    The federal government said that the COVID vaccines will not be given to States that still have to meet the condition. The COVID-19 vaccine will be opened on Saturday, according…

    Kenya receives 1.02 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine

    Kenya receives 1.02 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine

    by TOA CorrespondentCOVID-19East AfricaMarch 3, 2021March 4, 2021

    Early Wednesday, Kenya got over one million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine from the global COVAX factory. The World Health Organization’s (WHO) local office reported the delivery on Twitter, saying…

    South Africa: Government Moves to Lockdown Alert Level 1!

    South Africa: Government Moves to Lockdown Alert Level 1!

    by TOA CorrespondentCOVID-19Southern AfricaMarch 1, 2021March 1, 2021

    South Africa will move from Level 3 to Level 1 of the Risk Adjusted Strategy tonight as the number of new COVID-19 cases decreases.  On Sunday, President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed…

    Ivory Coast becomes the second country to receive vaccines via COVAX

    Ivory Coast becomes the second country to receive vaccines via COVAX!

    by TOA CorrespondentCOVID-19West AfricaFebruary 27, 2021February 27, 2021

    Ivory Coast has become the world’s second most common country to receive the vaccine-shared COVID-19 shipment through COVAX.  The vaccines of the Serum Institute of India, 504,000 doses Oxford-AstraZeneca, arrived…

    Ghana Receives World’s First Doses Of Free Covax Vaccines From India

    Ghana Receives World’s First Doses Of Free Covax Vaccines From India!

    by TOA CorrespondentCOVID-19West AfricaFebruary 25, 2021February 26, 2021

    Ghana was the first country on Wednesday to receive Covax vaccines, a global scheme to grant and distribute Covid inoculations for the least developed countries free of charge.  “The next…

    Covid-19 – Govt Warns Nigerians Against Black Market Vaccine!

    Covid-19 – Govt Warns Nigerians Against Black Market Vaccine!

    by TOA CorrespondentCOVID-19West AfricaFebruary 24, 2021February 24, 2021

    Nigerians have been warned by the Federal Government against desperating COVID-19 vaccine.  Boss Mustapha, the Secretary of the Government of the Federation (SGF) and COVID-19 President of the Presidential Task…

    Zimbabwe: Rights Lawyers Demand China Vaccine Safety Guarantees From Govt

    by TOA CorrespondentCOVID-19Southern AfricaFebruary 20, 2021February 22, 2021

    ZIMBABWE Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) have written to Health Minister Constantino Chiwenga demanding assurances the Chinese Covid-19 vaccine being imported into the country by government was safe. The group…

    Malawi SDG Acceleration Fund approves new programmes and allocates MK3 billion to fight COVID-19

    Malawi SDG Acceleration Fund approves new programmes and allocates MK3 billion to fight COVID-19

    by TOA CorrespondentCOVID-19HEALTHFebruary 16, 2021February 16, 2021

    Malawi’s Sustainable Development Goals Acceleration Fund (SDG-AF) was set up in 2019 by the Government of Malawi, development partners, and the United Nations (UN) to accelerate progress towards national attainment…

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