Kenya will next year start manufacturing Covid-19 vaccines locally in collaboration with unnamed pharmaceutical firms in a move aimed at …
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Sunday his intention to introduce a “vaccine passport”, amid widespread mistrust of the …
The government in Zimbabwe is asking its employees to get vaccinated against Covid-19 or resign. It says the move is …
The African Union has announced that Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines assembled in South Africa will no longer be exported …
The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) has joined the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to caution …
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro signed off on a law allowing for vaccine and medication patents to be broken in a …
Johnson & Johnson’s highly anticipated HIV vaccine failed to demonstrate adequate protection in a clinical trial involving more than 2,600 …
South Africa’s scientists have detected a new variant of Covid-19 which they say has the potential to be a variant …
The German Government is giving Ghana some 1.5 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines to aid in the national …
Researchers are monitoring a new coronavirus variant found in South Africa. The C.1.2, which has multiple mutations, has not yet …
This was disclosed in a statement from President Emmanuel Macron’s office. It said that enough jabs had now been purchased …
A third wave of COVID-19 infections in Africa has stabilised and the continent’s slow vaccination drive has picked up pace, …
The country has registered over 20.5 million cases since the pandemic began, but the Brazilian president asked his health ministry …
South Africa, which has struggled to obtain Covid vaccines that are too rare, too expensive before launching its immunization campaign …
The Covid-19 vaccination age in South Africa has now been revised to include 18-34 year-olds. Starting Friday, all adults will …
The US has sent nearly half a million doses of the Pfizer vaccine to Rwanda, White House spokesman Kevin Munoz …
Kenya on Wednesday received 407,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine from the UK at a time when Kenya is battling …
Nigeria has received about 700,000 Covid-19 vaccine doses donated by the UK. The government also announced it has purchased close …
The artemisia annua plant, also known as sweet wormwood, has long provided a key ingredient in treating malaria The World …
A UAE firm linked to a member of the country’s royal family has agreed to refund about $2m (£1.4m) to …
South Africa’s health authorities have started vaccinating the homeless, one of the country’s most vulnerable communities, with one-dose vaccines to …
Dr Rose Ameh, a pediatrician, says breastfeeding mothers with the COVID-19 virus can still breastfeed their babies, because breastfeeding and …
Nigeria has recorded its highest daily confirmed cases of Covid-19 in nearly six months. Figures from the country’s centre for …
As of August 2, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 6,746,085 while over 46,413,600 vaccinations have been …
The President of the Academy of Medicine Specialties of Nigeria, Professor Oladapo Ashiru, has said some day-to-day activities that people …
Nigeria received four million doses of the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine from the United States as the West African nation steps …
Covid vaccine passports have effectively been introduced for users of the NHS app in England via a change to the …
People in Tanzania are being actively encouraged to get Covid-19 vaccinations in a dramatic change of policy for one of …
The U.S. government on Wednesday will ship nearly 10 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines to two of the most populous …
South Africa has so far given out 6,854,667 vaccine doses, with 225,808 being given out on Tuesday. According to the …
Malaria kills more than 400,000 people in Africa every year. BioNTech, the pharmaceutical firm that partnered Pfizer to hand the …
In a major milestone, a medical oxygen plant has been built in Mutare by a company under the Harare Institute …
Tanzania has received more than one million doses of the Johnson and Johnson coronavirus vaccine. They are part of the …
Rwanda has extended a lockdown that prohibits unnecessary movements in the capital Kigali and eight other districts as it analyses …
A professor of public health, Tanimola Akande, says the fatality rate of monkeypox is usually higher among the younger population, …
A total of 4487 children lost their primary or secondary caregivers to the disease. At least 3,853 Nigerian children, younger …
The makers of the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine say they have found a South African partner to manufacture their jab locally. …
A case of MonkeyPox, a rare but potentially serious viral illness, has been identified in a Texas resident who recently …
The United Kingdom has retained Kenya in the list of countries whose nationals are barred from entering Britain, dealing a …
The Rwandan capital Kigali and eight other districts across the country are sent back into lockdown to curb surging coronavirus …
A total of 450,000 Covid vaccine doses have been destroyed in nine African countries, a World Health Organization (WHO) official …
Rwanda has put its capital Kigali back under total lockdown for 10 days effective July 17 as the country battles …
Tanzania is set to receive 300,000 Covid-19 vaccines from the UN-backed Covax scheme. Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima said healthcare workers …
Nigeria expects to receive nearly 8 million additional doses of COVID-19 vaccines by the end of August, including from a …
Covid-19 is surging in Africa with a record average number of new cases according to an AFP tally based on …
WHO has launched updated Guidelines for Recreational Water Quality, as the northern hemisphere summer reaches its peak and beaches, lakes …
Zimbabwe received 2 million Covid-19 vaccines from China’s Sinovac. Its single largest shipment that it hopes will boost a vaccination …
According to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), a deadly variant of the deadly COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2 Delta, has been …
