Denial And Under-Reporting: Africa Heads Ill-Prepared Into COVID-19 Second Wave

22/12/2020 Kerry Cullinan, Zarina Geloo & Paul Adepoju

Cape Town – As South Africa records over 930,000 COVID-19 cases and its scientists race to understand whether a new variant is driving the country’s second wave of infections, countries across the African continent are reporting an increase in cases. But there is widespread anecdotal evidence that many African countries are massively under-reporting their COVID-19 […] Continue reading ->

Most Countries Can Expect Vaccine Supply in Early 2021 – But The Pandemic is Far From Over, Warns WHO

04/12/2020 Kerry Cullinan

While the UK and US are likely to start vaccinating its citizens against COVID-19 before the end of the year, the 189 countries that are part of the COVAX initiative should expect to start getting vaccines towards the end of the first quarter of 2021, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. Currently through COVAX, […] Continue reading ->