Baricitinib and Sotrovimaba are recommended for patients with severe or critical COVID-19 and mild or moderate COVID-19 in patients who are at high risk of hospitalization respectively.
The African Vaccine Acquisition Trust (AVAT), Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and COVAX have urged international community to make their donations to Africa in a manner that will allow countries to fully…
African Development Bank (AfDB) President Akinwumi Adesina yesterday advised world leaders not to label or penalise African nations for the new COVID-19 variants and mutations.
Adesina, one of the strong advocates of equity in vaccine…
Togo moto-taxi driver Kossigan Fandji was twice barred from entering his local town hall to try to access his documents because he failed to present a Covid-19 vaccine card.
Fandji joined the rush of Togolese getting the jab after his…
The Democratic Republic of the Congo has declared an outbreak of meningitis in the north-eastern Tshopo Province where 261 suspected cases and 129 deaths—a high case fatality ratio of 50%—have been reported.
Confirmatory tests carried…
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 nations—nearly 80%—are set to miss the target if the…
COVID-19 vaccine shipments to Africa , from multiple sources, are increasing rapidly after being virtually halted in recent months. Almost 4 million doses of the COVAX Mechanism arrived in Africa last week, compared to just 245,000 doses…
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC, has confirmed a case with the highly transmissible COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) Delta variant, also known as lineage B.1.617.2.
The Head of Communications, NCDC, Dr Yahya Disu, who announced the…