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COVID-19: Zipline, UPS to deliver first vaccines to health facilities
The world’s first and only national scale drone delivery service, Zipline, has announced a successful collaboration with UPS and The…
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AstraZeneca vaccine ‘protects against severe disease, death’
The emergence of variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, serves as a powerful reminder that viruses by their…
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COVID-19: BUA donates a million AstraZeneca vaccine doses for Nigeria
Purchased through a private sector partnership by the corporate group that imports materials to process locally, the vaccine will be…
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Tanzania says it has no plans to import COVID-19 vaccine
The World Health Organisation said Thursday that it was in touch with Tanzania as President John Magufuli on Wednesday called…
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AFRICA
COVID-19: New variants fueling Africa’s second wave, says WHO
COVID-19 cases and deaths are surging in Africa as new, more contagious variants of the virus spread to additional countries.…
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COVID-19: Ensure vaccine equity or face global moral failure – WHO
A year after the novel coronavirus first began to spread around the world, the World Health Organisation says that the…
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Ebola vaccine stockpile set up to fight future outbreaks
In a major milestone in the fight against deadly diseases, United Nations agencies and humanitarian partners announced on Tuesday, the…
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AFRICA
COVID-19 pandemic is ‘not necessarily the big one,’ a more deadly pandemic could sweep the globe – WHO warns
The World Health Organization has warned that the coronavirus pandemic is ‘not necessarily the big one’ and that a more…
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