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Equally, 49 COVID-19 patients have recovered over the same period of time

As of March 27, 2022, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 11,358,704 while over 268,645,655 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

Africa and the Caribbean have undertaken broader efforts to target geographies with lagging vaccination rates.

The WHO noted that in many countries, human, financial and other resources have been reallocated from tackling TB to the COVID-19 response, limiting the availability of essential services

Two years after the start of the pandemic, the Republic of Congo has begun to apply the genomic sequencing capacities developed in the fight against COVID-19 to other pathogens.

“I came to take the COVID-19 booster dose and brought my baby for (childhood routine) immunization,” says Cacilda Manjate, a young mother waiting in the consultation room in Matola II clinic just outside Mozambique’s capital Maputo.

Findings highlight opportunities for strengthening surveillance, health systems, and access to realistically available therapeutics, and scaling up risk-based vaccination.

As Liberia tackled rising COVID-19 cases in 2022, rapid diagnostic testing of everyone living within 100 metres of newly confirmed cases ...

COVID-19 transmission continues in South Africa in March; Western Cape province is most at risk. Maintain basic health precautions.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) in partnership with Africa Center for Disease Control (Africa CDC) has mapped out six countries for vaccine manufacture.