SOUTH AFRICA – Patrick Soon-Shiong, a US biotech billionaire, has launched a plant in Cape Town that will produce a billion Covid-19 vaccine doses per year by 2025, making it…
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Lockdowns no longer effective tool to contain COVID-19: Africa CDC
AFRICA – According to Africa’s top public health official, John Nkengasong, severe lockdowns are no longer effective in preventing the spread of Covid 19. The director of the Africa Centres…
Read MoreAfrica must ensure its own health security, says head of Africa CDC
AFRICA – According to leading African health experts Christian Happi and John Nkengasong in the 6 January 2022 edition of science journal Nature, the Covid-19 pandemic highlights the urgent need…
Read MoreUS pledges 17 million J&J vaccines to the AU
USA – President Joe Biden has announced that the United States will donate more than 17 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine to the African Union. Biden…
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