Africa UN Knowledge Hub for COVID-19

Scientists have released the first real-world data from Africa on the effectiveness of two doses of AstraZeneca/ChaAd0x-1 COVID-19 vaccination.

Though COVID-19 cases continue to decline globally, they rose last week for the third week in a row in Africa and the Americas.

Aspen Pharmacare, in South Africa, was licensed to produce the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. It was hailed as an answer to Africa’s struggle to get access to vaccines.

Pregnancy puts women at higher risk of severe medical complications or death from COVID-19, according to a new study of more than 1,300 women in sub-Saharan Africa.

Better strategies are needed to overcome vaccine hesitancy, but these need to be tailormade for regions.

Africa’s reported COVID-19 cases have now reached just under 12 million, and about 254 400 lives have been lost.

At the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference, governments reached a landmark intellectual property (IP) Waiver for COVID-19 medical tools

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As of June 26, 2022, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 12,023,588 while 315,484,942 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

A recent article posted to the medRxiv* preprint server analyzed the illness severity of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Omicron BA.4/BA.5 and prior viral waves in the Western Cape, South Africa.