COVID-19 variants prolong Africa’s pandemic wave

COVID-19 variants prolong Africa’s pandemic wave
Weekly COVID-19 cases in Africa fell by more than 20%—the sharpest seven-day decline in two months – as the third wave pandemic tapers off. However, the rate of deceleration is slower than the previous waves owing to the impact of more transmissible variants.

States in the Northwest keep pressure on vaccine-derived polio

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Kano, 9 September, 2021 - On 25 August 2021, African countries marked one-year anniversary of Polio certification. Programme managers, health workers and polio survivors in Nigeria also celebrated the wild polio- free status in the country.  

Eight in 10 African countries to miss crucial COVID-19 vaccination goal

Eight in 10 African countries to miss crucial COVID-19 vaccination goal
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 current pace of vaccine deliveries and vaccinations hold, new data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows.