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Kigali – Forty-eight hours after Rwanda received shipments of COVID-19 vaccines, vaccinations began in earnest, with high-risk population given priority. The country plans to vaccinate a third of the population in 2021 and double that figure next year. 

07 April 2021 — One hundred, and seventy-night (179) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 5266 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases twenty-three thousand, and forty-one (23041). To date, twenty thousand, eight hundred, and thirty-five (20835) patients have recovered, including one hundred and thirty (130) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is one thousand, eight hundred, and ninety-two (1892) and three hundred and fourteen (314) deaths. 

The Ministry of Health (MoH) and its stakeholders are conducted a national intra-action review of the COVID-19 response with the support of World Health Organization (WHO). The review lasted six days, i.e., from 06 to 10 April 2021 and was held at Sir Dawda Kairaba Jawara International Conference Centre.

Monrovia, 6th April 2021: The Ministry of Health and partners on 6th April officially launched the Typhoid Conjugate Vaccine (TCV) in Liberia targeting more than 1 million children from 9 months to under 15 years.

Benin, 8 April 2021 - Nigeria’s Minister of Health, Dr Osagie Ehanire says, “the theme for 2021 World Health Day theme-building a fairer, healthier world for everyone not only opens conversations on many facets of inequities across the health sector globally, but also within our own national health system, from Federal, State to Local Governments.

06 April 2021 — One hundred, and seventy-eight (178) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 7864 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases twenty-two thousand, eight hundred, and sixty-two (22862). To date, twenty thousand, seven hundred, and seventy-five (20705) patients have recovered, including one hundred and eleven (111) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is one thousand, eight hundred, and forty-three (1843) and three hundred and fourteen (314) deaths. 

Juba, South Sudan 6 April 2021 – South Sudan’s COVID-19 vaccination drive kicked off today with health workers getting their first dose of the Astra Zeneca vaccine at Juba Teaching Hospital. The first person in the country to be vaccinated against the virus was the Hon. Minister of Health Elizabeth Achuei.

05 April 2021 — Two hundred and two (202) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 3835 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases twenty-two thousand, six hundred, and eighty-four (22684). To date, twenty thousand, five hundred, and ninety-four (20594) patients have recovered, including seventy-five (75) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is one thousand, seven hundred, and seventy-nine (1779) and three hundred and eleven (311) deaths.