Sun 30 January 2022: Cape Town, South Africa – On January 19, at a cavernous warehouse on an industrial estate in Cape Town, South African-born billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong launched a project he believes will be a considerable step in Africa’s struggle for vaccine equity. Within a year it is hoped that the empty building will be […]
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Sat 29 January 2022: Spreading fake news and misinformation on COVID-19 and vaccines, including by Catholic media, is a violation of human rights, according to Pope Francis. Francis made his comments in an address to members of catholicfactchecking.com, a consortium of Catholic media whose says its aim is to “clarify fake news and misleading information” […]
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Sat 29 January 2022: As per the government, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has been placed in self-isolation until Tuesday after being identified as a close contact of a person who tested positive for COVID-19. The exposure took place on January 22 during a flight to Auckland from the town of Kerikeri, the government […]
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Sat 29 January 2022: The BA.2 subtype of the Omicron coronavirus variant appears to have a substantial growth advantage over the currently predominant BA.1 type, the United Kingdom’s Health Security Agency has said. UKHSA said on Friday there was an increased growth rate of BA.2 compared with BA.1 in all regions of England where there were enough […]
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Fri 28 January 2022: The Commission on Gender Equality has retracted its statement on COVID-19 vaccination and the impact it has on women’s reproductive health. “On the 16th January 2022, the Commission for Gender Equality (CGE) issued a public statement to the media in which we erroneously quoted an article published in a medical journal […]
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Fri 28 January 2022: On Thursday, the European Union’s health regulator approved the use of Pfizer’s COVID-19 anti-viral pill. In a statement, the European Medicines Agency (EMA) said it had “recommended authorising Paxlovid for treating COVID-19 in adults who… are at increased risk of the disease becoming severe.” Paxlovid has only been approved for people […]
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Fri 28 January 2022: Some 53 African countries have conducted 94,293,113 COVID-19 tests so far, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said in the latest weekly briefing held Thursday. The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the African Union, said 1,405,112 new tests were reported during the past one week. […]
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Thu 27 January 2022: How past exposure to other coronaviruses can stop people from catching COVID-19 even if they live with someone who has tested positive. Plus, how to recognise the symptoms of a blood clot. Many of us will be familiar with this scenario: Someone we know has tested positive for COVID-19 but despite […]
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Thu 27 January 2022: The United Nations children’s fund (UNICEF) on Wednesday kicked off an eight-week campaign to help boost COVID-19 vaccinations across Africa. UNICEF said the first ever U-Report Challenge which comes a week after COVAX delivered its billionth dose in Rwanda, calls on all 13.3 million U-Reporters in Africa to help get vaccines […]
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Wed 26 January 2022: The U.S. pandemic lockdown in 2020 caused a $2.3 trillion economic downturn and split the nation politically, and now some European nations are locking down again as Omicron surges through the global population. But do these drastic measures save lives? Are they worth massive job and income losses? A new University […]
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