Angola becomes the first country in Eastern and Southern Africa region to receive COVAX vaccines against COVID-19
Angola today received 624,000 doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine from the Sérum Institute of India as part of the COVAX initiative, which aims to ensure the equitable distribution of vaccines against COVID-19 worldwide. With this first batch of vaccines, estimated at about 10 per cent of the country’s first phase vaccine needs, the Government will […]
West African health ministers in joint fight against Ebola
Ministers of Health from Guinea – which is combating a new Ebola outbreak – and neighbouring countries have agreed on a unified front to combat the virus that re-emerged about three weeks ago. The meeting was opened by His Excellency, the Prime Minister of Guinea, Dr Ibrahima Kassory Fofana in Guinea’s capital, Conakry on 2 […]