More Investments Needed To Fight Covid-19 And Further Disease Outbreaks 09/03/2021 Chandre Prince African governments, the private sector, and development partners need to invest more in health and health systems to intensify the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and any future disease outbreaks, according to health experts speaking at the African Health Agenda International Conference (AHAIC) on Tuesday. The experts agreed that a comprehensive, multi-sectoral approach is needed […] Continue reading -> European Medicines Agency Urges EU Member States To Postpone National Rollouts Of Russian Sputnik V Vaccine 08/03/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A senior official at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has cautioned EU member states to wait until the agency has reviewed the safety and efficacy data of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine before granting the vaccine emergency use authorization at national level, and beginning mass rollouts. Last week, the EMA formally began a rolling review of […] Continue reading -> WHO Offers To Play ‘Matchmaker’ For Pharma Companies to Close Vaccine Production Gaps 05/03/2021 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization (WHO) and its COVAX partners are hosting a summit next week with governments and pharmaceutical companies to address the bottlenecks in COVID-19 vaccine production and delivery. This follows a spectacular start in the past week for COVAX, the global vaccine delivery platform, which delivered more than 20 million doses of COVID-19 […] Continue reading -> AstraZeneca Vaccine Sharply Reduces Symptomatic COVID-19 In Older Adults; India’s ‘Covaxin’ Vaccine Reported To Be 81% Efficacious – First Interim Analysis 03/03/2021 Raisa Santos & Elaine Ruth Fletcher The AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine can reduce severe COVID-19 in older adults by up to 70%, says a new Public Health England (PHE) study – which offers the first real-world evidence of the effectiveness of the vaccine in preventing serious disease among older adults, following its approval by UK and European regulatory agencies. Findings about the efficacy […] Continue reading -> COVAX Aims to Distribute 237-million Vaccine Doses By May 02/03/2021 Sindie Mhlophe The global vaccine platform, COVAX, aims to distribute 237 million doses of the Oxford/ AstraZeneca vaccine to 142 countries by the end of May 2021, its managing partners told the media on Tuesday. Eleven million doses will be delivered this week alone, with Angola, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria getting their vaccines on […] Continue reading -> Ambitious Global COVAX Facility Delivers First Doses In Accra Ghana 24/02/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher, Svĕt Lustig Vijay & Paul Adepoju Under cloudy skies, Ghana’s first precious doses of Covid-19 vaccines arrived Wednesday morning at Accra’s Kotoka International Airport. They are also the first supplies to be distributed by the WHO co-sponsored COVAX facility on the African continent. The arrival of some 600,000 vaccines marks a milestone in months of effort by WHO, UNICEF, GAVI and […] Continue reading -> Some Countries Ease Lockdowns, But Others Battle New COVID-19 Surges 23/02/2021 Raisa Santos & Kerry Cullinan The United Kingdom, Switzerland, Israel and Turkey are cautiously reopening businesses and relaxing limits on gatherings and travel as COVID-19 cases declined both globally and within these countries. However, parts of France, the Czech Republic, and Sweden are preparing for harder lockdown measures as their cases surge in contrast to worldwide trends. As of 23 […] Continue reading -> Secrecy Surrounds the Start of Rwanda’s COVID-19 Vaccination Roll-out 19/02/2021 Esther Nakkazi Rwanda started vaccinating health workers against COVID-19 on Monday, but there is confusion about which vaccine it is using or where it has got it from. A local media report said that the Moderna vaccine was being used while the BBC reported that the Pfizer/ BioNtech vaccine was being used. Meanwhile, a source told Health […] Continue reading -> WHO Special Envoy Expects Some Form Of A ‘Vaccine Passport’ In The Future – But Vaccine Shortages Are An Immediate Hurdle 16/02/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A World Health Organization (WHO) Special Envoy for COVID-19 has suggested that ‘vaccine passports’ could prove to be an important part of future international travel regulations to stop the spread of COVID-19 and its variants. A growing number of countries around the world are in fact already racing ahead to create vaccine passport systems – […] Continue reading -> Africa CDC: Roll Out AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine On Continent — Except In Countries Where B-1351 Variant Dominates 11/02/2021 Paul Adepoju In the next two weeks, distribution of millions of doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca SARS-COV2 to health workers across Africa will get underway, said the director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control in a joint press briefing with the WHO Regional Office for Africa on Thursday. CDC Director John Nkengasong told Health Policy Watch that […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
European Medicines Agency Urges EU Member States To Postpone National Rollouts Of Russian Sputnik V Vaccine 08/03/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A senior official at the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has cautioned EU member states to wait until the agency has reviewed the safety and efficacy data of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine before granting the vaccine emergency use authorization at national level, and beginning mass rollouts. Last week, the EMA formally began a rolling review of […] Continue reading -> WHO Offers To Play ‘Matchmaker’ For Pharma Companies to Close Vaccine Production Gaps 05/03/2021 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization (WHO) and its COVAX partners are hosting a summit next week with governments and pharmaceutical companies to address the bottlenecks in COVID-19 vaccine production and delivery. This follows a spectacular start in the past week for COVAX, the global vaccine delivery platform, which delivered more than 20 million doses of COVID-19 […] Continue reading -> AstraZeneca Vaccine Sharply Reduces Symptomatic COVID-19 In Older Adults; India’s ‘Covaxin’ Vaccine Reported To Be 81% Efficacious – First Interim Analysis 03/03/2021 Raisa Santos & Elaine Ruth Fletcher The AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine can reduce severe COVID-19 in older adults by up to 70%, says a new Public Health England (PHE) study – which offers the first real-world evidence of the effectiveness of the vaccine in preventing serious disease among older adults, following its approval by UK and European regulatory agencies. Findings about the efficacy […] Continue reading -> COVAX Aims to Distribute 237-million Vaccine Doses By May 02/03/2021 Sindie Mhlophe The global vaccine platform, COVAX, aims to distribute 237 million doses of the Oxford/ AstraZeneca vaccine to 142 countries by the end of May 2021, its managing partners told the media on Tuesday. Eleven million doses will be delivered this week alone, with Angola, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria getting their vaccines on […] Continue reading -> Ambitious Global COVAX Facility Delivers First Doses In Accra Ghana 24/02/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher, Svĕt Lustig Vijay & Paul Adepoju Under cloudy skies, Ghana’s first precious doses of Covid-19 vaccines arrived Wednesday morning at Accra’s Kotoka International Airport. They are also the first supplies to be distributed by the WHO co-sponsored COVAX facility on the African continent. The arrival of some 600,000 vaccines marks a milestone in months of effort by WHO, UNICEF, GAVI and […] Continue reading -> Some Countries Ease Lockdowns, But Others Battle New COVID-19 Surges 23/02/2021 Raisa Santos & Kerry Cullinan The United Kingdom, Switzerland, Israel and Turkey are cautiously reopening businesses and relaxing limits on gatherings and travel as COVID-19 cases declined both globally and within these countries. However, parts of France, the Czech Republic, and Sweden are preparing for harder lockdown measures as their cases surge in contrast to worldwide trends. As of 23 […] Continue reading -> Secrecy Surrounds the Start of Rwanda’s COVID-19 Vaccination Roll-out 19/02/2021 Esther Nakkazi Rwanda started vaccinating health workers against COVID-19 on Monday, but there is confusion about which vaccine it is using or where it has got it from. A local media report said that the Moderna vaccine was being used while the BBC reported that the Pfizer/ BioNtech vaccine was being used. Meanwhile, a source told Health […] Continue reading -> WHO Special Envoy Expects Some Form Of A ‘Vaccine Passport’ In The Future – But Vaccine Shortages Are An Immediate Hurdle 16/02/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A World Health Organization (WHO) Special Envoy for COVID-19 has suggested that ‘vaccine passports’ could prove to be an important part of future international travel regulations to stop the spread of COVID-19 and its variants. A growing number of countries around the world are in fact already racing ahead to create vaccine passport systems – […] Continue reading -> Africa CDC: Roll Out AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine On Continent — Except In Countries Where B-1351 Variant Dominates 11/02/2021 Paul Adepoju In the next two weeks, distribution of millions of doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca SARS-COV2 to health workers across Africa will get underway, said the director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control in a joint press briefing with the WHO Regional Office for Africa on Thursday. CDC Director John Nkengasong told Health Policy Watch that […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Offers To Play ‘Matchmaker’ For Pharma Companies to Close Vaccine Production Gaps 05/03/2021 Kerry Cullinan The World Health Organization (WHO) and its COVAX partners are hosting a summit next week with governments and pharmaceutical companies to address the bottlenecks in COVID-19 vaccine production and delivery. This follows a spectacular start in the past week for COVAX, the global vaccine delivery platform, which delivered more than 20 million doses of COVID-19 […] Continue reading -> AstraZeneca Vaccine Sharply Reduces Symptomatic COVID-19 In Older Adults; India’s ‘Covaxin’ Vaccine Reported To Be 81% Efficacious – First Interim Analysis 03/03/2021 Raisa Santos & Elaine Ruth Fletcher The AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine can reduce severe COVID-19 in older adults by up to 70%, says a new Public Health England (PHE) study – which offers the first real-world evidence of the effectiveness of the vaccine in preventing serious disease among older adults, following its approval by UK and European regulatory agencies. Findings about the efficacy […] Continue reading -> COVAX Aims to Distribute 237-million Vaccine Doses By May 02/03/2021 Sindie Mhlophe The global vaccine platform, COVAX, aims to distribute 237 million doses of the Oxford/ AstraZeneca vaccine to 142 countries by the end of May 2021, its managing partners told the media on Tuesday. Eleven million doses will be delivered this week alone, with Angola, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria getting their vaccines on […] Continue reading -> Ambitious Global COVAX Facility Delivers First Doses In Accra Ghana 24/02/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher, Svĕt Lustig Vijay & Paul Adepoju Under cloudy skies, Ghana’s first precious doses of Covid-19 vaccines arrived Wednesday morning at Accra’s Kotoka International Airport. They are also the first supplies to be distributed by the WHO co-sponsored COVAX facility on the African continent. The arrival of some 600,000 vaccines marks a milestone in months of effort by WHO, UNICEF, GAVI and […] Continue reading -> Some Countries Ease Lockdowns, But Others Battle New COVID-19 Surges 23/02/2021 Raisa Santos & Kerry Cullinan The United Kingdom, Switzerland, Israel and Turkey are cautiously reopening businesses and relaxing limits on gatherings and travel as COVID-19 cases declined both globally and within these countries. However, parts of France, the Czech Republic, and Sweden are preparing for harder lockdown measures as their cases surge in contrast to worldwide trends. As of 23 […] Continue reading -> Secrecy Surrounds the Start of Rwanda’s COVID-19 Vaccination Roll-out 19/02/2021 Esther Nakkazi Rwanda started vaccinating health workers against COVID-19 on Monday, but there is confusion about which vaccine it is using or where it has got it from. A local media report said that the Moderna vaccine was being used while the BBC reported that the Pfizer/ BioNtech vaccine was being used. Meanwhile, a source told Health […] Continue reading -> WHO Special Envoy Expects Some Form Of A ‘Vaccine Passport’ In The Future – But Vaccine Shortages Are An Immediate Hurdle 16/02/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A World Health Organization (WHO) Special Envoy for COVID-19 has suggested that ‘vaccine passports’ could prove to be an important part of future international travel regulations to stop the spread of COVID-19 and its variants. A growing number of countries around the world are in fact already racing ahead to create vaccine passport systems – […] Continue reading -> Africa CDC: Roll Out AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine On Continent — Except In Countries Where B-1351 Variant Dominates 11/02/2021 Paul Adepoju In the next two weeks, distribution of millions of doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca SARS-COV2 to health workers across Africa will get underway, said the director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control in a joint press briefing with the WHO Regional Office for Africa on Thursday. CDC Director John Nkengasong told Health Policy Watch that […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
AstraZeneca Vaccine Sharply Reduces Symptomatic COVID-19 In Older Adults; India’s ‘Covaxin’ Vaccine Reported To Be 81% Efficacious – First Interim Analysis 03/03/2021 Raisa Santos & Elaine Ruth Fletcher The AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine can reduce severe COVID-19 in older adults by up to 70%, says a new Public Health England (PHE) study – which offers the first real-world evidence of the effectiveness of the vaccine in preventing serious disease among older adults, following its approval by UK and European regulatory agencies. Findings about the efficacy […] Continue reading -> COVAX Aims to Distribute 237-million Vaccine Doses By May 02/03/2021 Sindie Mhlophe The global vaccine platform, COVAX, aims to distribute 237 million doses of the Oxford/ AstraZeneca vaccine to 142 countries by the end of May 2021, its managing partners told the media on Tuesday. Eleven million doses will be delivered this week alone, with Angola, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria getting their vaccines on […] Continue reading -> Ambitious Global COVAX Facility Delivers First Doses In Accra Ghana 24/02/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher, Svĕt Lustig Vijay & Paul Adepoju Under cloudy skies, Ghana’s first precious doses of Covid-19 vaccines arrived Wednesday morning at Accra’s Kotoka International Airport. They are also the first supplies to be distributed by the WHO co-sponsored COVAX facility on the African continent. The arrival of some 600,000 vaccines marks a milestone in months of effort by WHO, UNICEF, GAVI and […] Continue reading -> Some Countries Ease Lockdowns, But Others Battle New COVID-19 Surges 23/02/2021 Raisa Santos & Kerry Cullinan The United Kingdom, Switzerland, Israel and Turkey are cautiously reopening businesses and relaxing limits on gatherings and travel as COVID-19 cases declined both globally and within these countries. However, parts of France, the Czech Republic, and Sweden are preparing for harder lockdown measures as their cases surge in contrast to worldwide trends. As of 23 […] Continue reading -> Secrecy Surrounds the Start of Rwanda’s COVID-19 Vaccination Roll-out 19/02/2021 Esther Nakkazi Rwanda started vaccinating health workers against COVID-19 on Monday, but there is confusion about which vaccine it is using or where it has got it from. A local media report said that the Moderna vaccine was being used while the BBC reported that the Pfizer/ BioNtech vaccine was being used. Meanwhile, a source told Health […] Continue reading -> WHO Special Envoy Expects Some Form Of A ‘Vaccine Passport’ In The Future – But Vaccine Shortages Are An Immediate Hurdle 16/02/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A World Health Organization (WHO) Special Envoy for COVID-19 has suggested that ‘vaccine passports’ could prove to be an important part of future international travel regulations to stop the spread of COVID-19 and its variants. A growing number of countries around the world are in fact already racing ahead to create vaccine passport systems – […] Continue reading -> Africa CDC: Roll Out AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine On Continent — Except In Countries Where B-1351 Variant Dominates 11/02/2021 Paul Adepoju In the next two weeks, distribution of millions of doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca SARS-COV2 to health workers across Africa will get underway, said the director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control in a joint press briefing with the WHO Regional Office for Africa on Thursday. CDC Director John Nkengasong told Health Policy Watch that […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
COVAX Aims to Distribute 237-million Vaccine Doses By May 02/03/2021 Sindie Mhlophe The global vaccine platform, COVAX, aims to distribute 237 million doses of the Oxford/ AstraZeneca vaccine to 142 countries by the end of May 2021, its managing partners told the media on Tuesday. Eleven million doses will be delivered this week alone, with Angola, Cambodia, Democratic Republic of Congo and Nigeria getting their vaccines on […] Continue reading -> Ambitious Global COVAX Facility Delivers First Doses In Accra Ghana 24/02/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher, Svĕt Lustig Vijay & Paul Adepoju Under cloudy skies, Ghana’s first precious doses of Covid-19 vaccines arrived Wednesday morning at Accra’s Kotoka International Airport. They are also the first supplies to be distributed by the WHO co-sponsored COVAX facility on the African continent. The arrival of some 600,000 vaccines marks a milestone in months of effort by WHO, UNICEF, GAVI and […] Continue reading -> Some Countries Ease Lockdowns, But Others Battle New COVID-19 Surges 23/02/2021 Raisa Santos & Kerry Cullinan The United Kingdom, Switzerland, Israel and Turkey are cautiously reopening businesses and relaxing limits on gatherings and travel as COVID-19 cases declined both globally and within these countries. However, parts of France, the Czech Republic, and Sweden are preparing for harder lockdown measures as their cases surge in contrast to worldwide trends. As of 23 […] Continue reading -> Secrecy Surrounds the Start of Rwanda’s COVID-19 Vaccination Roll-out 19/02/2021 Esther Nakkazi Rwanda started vaccinating health workers against COVID-19 on Monday, but there is confusion about which vaccine it is using or where it has got it from. A local media report said that the Moderna vaccine was being used while the BBC reported that the Pfizer/ BioNtech vaccine was being used. Meanwhile, a source told Health […] Continue reading -> WHO Special Envoy Expects Some Form Of A ‘Vaccine Passport’ In The Future – But Vaccine Shortages Are An Immediate Hurdle 16/02/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A World Health Organization (WHO) Special Envoy for COVID-19 has suggested that ‘vaccine passports’ could prove to be an important part of future international travel regulations to stop the spread of COVID-19 and its variants. A growing number of countries around the world are in fact already racing ahead to create vaccine passport systems – […] Continue reading -> Africa CDC: Roll Out AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine On Continent — Except In Countries Where B-1351 Variant Dominates 11/02/2021 Paul Adepoju In the next two weeks, distribution of millions of doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca SARS-COV2 to health workers across Africa will get underway, said the director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control in a joint press briefing with the WHO Regional Office for Africa on Thursday. CDC Director John Nkengasong told Health Policy Watch that […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Ambitious Global COVAX Facility Delivers First Doses In Accra Ghana 24/02/2021 Elaine Ruth Fletcher, Svĕt Lustig Vijay & Paul Adepoju Under cloudy skies, Ghana’s first precious doses of Covid-19 vaccines arrived Wednesday morning at Accra’s Kotoka International Airport. They are also the first supplies to be distributed by the WHO co-sponsored COVAX facility on the African continent. The arrival of some 600,000 vaccines marks a milestone in months of effort by WHO, UNICEF, GAVI and […] Continue reading -> Some Countries Ease Lockdowns, But Others Battle New COVID-19 Surges 23/02/2021 Raisa Santos & Kerry Cullinan The United Kingdom, Switzerland, Israel and Turkey are cautiously reopening businesses and relaxing limits on gatherings and travel as COVID-19 cases declined both globally and within these countries. However, parts of France, the Czech Republic, and Sweden are preparing for harder lockdown measures as their cases surge in contrast to worldwide trends. As of 23 […] Continue reading -> Secrecy Surrounds the Start of Rwanda’s COVID-19 Vaccination Roll-out 19/02/2021 Esther Nakkazi Rwanda started vaccinating health workers against COVID-19 on Monday, but there is confusion about which vaccine it is using or where it has got it from. A local media report said that the Moderna vaccine was being used while the BBC reported that the Pfizer/ BioNtech vaccine was being used. Meanwhile, a source told Health […] Continue reading -> WHO Special Envoy Expects Some Form Of A ‘Vaccine Passport’ In The Future – But Vaccine Shortages Are An Immediate Hurdle 16/02/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A World Health Organization (WHO) Special Envoy for COVID-19 has suggested that ‘vaccine passports’ could prove to be an important part of future international travel regulations to stop the spread of COVID-19 and its variants. A growing number of countries around the world are in fact already racing ahead to create vaccine passport systems – […] Continue reading -> Africa CDC: Roll Out AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine On Continent — Except In Countries Where B-1351 Variant Dominates 11/02/2021 Paul Adepoju In the next two weeks, distribution of millions of doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca SARS-COV2 to health workers across Africa will get underway, said the director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control in a joint press briefing with the WHO Regional Office for Africa on Thursday. CDC Director John Nkengasong told Health Policy Watch that […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Some Countries Ease Lockdowns, But Others Battle New COVID-19 Surges 23/02/2021 Raisa Santos & Kerry Cullinan The United Kingdom, Switzerland, Israel and Turkey are cautiously reopening businesses and relaxing limits on gatherings and travel as COVID-19 cases declined both globally and within these countries. However, parts of France, the Czech Republic, and Sweden are preparing for harder lockdown measures as their cases surge in contrast to worldwide trends. As of 23 […] Continue reading -> Secrecy Surrounds the Start of Rwanda’s COVID-19 Vaccination Roll-out 19/02/2021 Esther Nakkazi Rwanda started vaccinating health workers against COVID-19 on Monday, but there is confusion about which vaccine it is using or where it has got it from. A local media report said that the Moderna vaccine was being used while the BBC reported that the Pfizer/ BioNtech vaccine was being used. Meanwhile, a source told Health […] Continue reading -> WHO Special Envoy Expects Some Form Of A ‘Vaccine Passport’ In The Future – But Vaccine Shortages Are An Immediate Hurdle 16/02/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A World Health Organization (WHO) Special Envoy for COVID-19 has suggested that ‘vaccine passports’ could prove to be an important part of future international travel regulations to stop the spread of COVID-19 and its variants. A growing number of countries around the world are in fact already racing ahead to create vaccine passport systems – […] Continue reading -> Africa CDC: Roll Out AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine On Continent — Except In Countries Where B-1351 Variant Dominates 11/02/2021 Paul Adepoju In the next two weeks, distribution of millions of doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca SARS-COV2 to health workers across Africa will get underway, said the director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control in a joint press briefing with the WHO Regional Office for Africa on Thursday. CDC Director John Nkengasong told Health Policy Watch that […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Secrecy Surrounds the Start of Rwanda’s COVID-19 Vaccination Roll-out 19/02/2021 Esther Nakkazi Rwanda started vaccinating health workers against COVID-19 on Monday, but there is confusion about which vaccine it is using or where it has got it from. A local media report said that the Moderna vaccine was being used while the BBC reported that the Pfizer/ BioNtech vaccine was being used. Meanwhile, a source told Health […] Continue reading -> WHO Special Envoy Expects Some Form Of A ‘Vaccine Passport’ In The Future – But Vaccine Shortages Are An Immediate Hurdle 16/02/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A World Health Organization (WHO) Special Envoy for COVID-19 has suggested that ‘vaccine passports’ could prove to be an important part of future international travel regulations to stop the spread of COVID-19 and its variants. A growing number of countries around the world are in fact already racing ahead to create vaccine passport systems – […] Continue reading -> Africa CDC: Roll Out AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine On Continent — Except In Countries Where B-1351 Variant Dominates 11/02/2021 Paul Adepoju In the next two weeks, distribution of millions of doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca SARS-COV2 to health workers across Africa will get underway, said the director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control in a joint press briefing with the WHO Regional Office for Africa on Thursday. CDC Director John Nkengasong told Health Policy Watch that […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
WHO Special Envoy Expects Some Form Of A ‘Vaccine Passport’ In The Future – But Vaccine Shortages Are An Immediate Hurdle 16/02/2021 Madeleine Hoecklin A World Health Organization (WHO) Special Envoy for COVID-19 has suggested that ‘vaccine passports’ could prove to be an important part of future international travel regulations to stop the spread of COVID-19 and its variants. A growing number of countries around the world are in fact already racing ahead to create vaccine passport systems – […] Continue reading -> Africa CDC: Roll Out AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine On Continent — Except In Countries Where B-1351 Variant Dominates 11/02/2021 Paul Adepoju In the next two weeks, distribution of millions of doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca SARS-COV2 to health workers across Africa will get underway, said the director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control in a joint press briefing with the WHO Regional Office for Africa on Thursday. CDC Director John Nkengasong told Health Policy Watch that […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts
Africa CDC: Roll Out AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 Vaccine On Continent — Except In Countries Where B-1351 Variant Dominates 11/02/2021 Paul Adepoju In the next two weeks, distribution of millions of doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca SARS-COV2 to health workers across Africa will get underway, said the director of the Africa Centers for Disease Control in a joint press briefing with the WHO Regional Office for Africa on Thursday. CDC Director John Nkengasong told Health Policy Watch that […] Continue reading -> Posts navigation Older postsNewer posts