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Africa: African Union Makes Vaccine Deal for the Continent
VOA, 3 September 2021
The African Union has announced that Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccines assembled in South Africa will no longer be exported to Europe and will instead be distributed among… Read more »
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Africa: WHO to G20 Health Ministers - Meet Covid-19 Pledges, Share Know-How
UN News, 5 September 2021
Despite hopes that by now the pandemic would be under control, the head of the UN's health agency told the G20 leading industrialized nations Health Ministers Meeting in Rome on… Read more »
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Africa: Covid-19 - Africa Could Miss Goal to Vaccinate Millions By Month's End
UN News, 2 September 2021
Africa could miss the goal of vaccinating the most vulnerable 10 per cent of its population against COVID-19 before the month ends, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on… Read more »
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Africa: Eight in 10 African Countries to Miss Crucial Covid-19 Vaccination Goal
WHO, 2 September 2021
Africa is set to miss the urgent global goal of vaccinating the most vulnerable 10% of every country's population against COVID-19 by the end of September. Forty-two of Africa's 54… Read more »
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Africa: Lack of Covid-19 Vaccine Could Stop Global South Activists from Attending COP26
Thomson Reuters Foundation, 1 September 2021
Developing-nation delegates to the key UN climate conference in Scotland have been promised access to a COVID-19 vaccine, but with only two months to go, time is running short Read more »
African Union Makes Vaccine Deal for the Continent
The African Union has announced that Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Covid-19 vaccines assembled in South Africa will no longer be exported to Europe and will instead be distributed among African countries, Voice of America reports.
The deal between J&J and Aspen Pharmacare, the South African facility manufacturing the J&J vaccines that were sent to Europe, had received harsh criticism as less than 3% of the population of the African continent has been inoculated, compared to richer regions of the world that have begun or will soon begin booster shot campaigns.
The World Health Organization has warned that the pandemic cannot be brought under control unless all the world's regions are equitably vaccinated. As of September 3, 2021, a total of 7,851,266 cases of Covid-19 has been confirmed across the continent of which 197,710 proved fatal and 6,995,560 resulted in recovery while 68,698,355 vaccinations have been administered.
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Doses of the Johnson and Johnson vaccine manufactured by Janssen (file photo).
