Africa has just lived through its most devastating week of the pandemic, but the worst is yet to come as the third wave gathers pace on the continent, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
Jul 8, 2021
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Egypt's Health Ministry has confirmed the first case of the new virus in the North African country.
Feb 14, 2020
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Two cases of coronavirus have been detected in Burkina Faso, a couple who returned to the West African country from France, the government said.
Mar 10, 2020
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Yale researchers have identified a common genetic variant that makes people infected with HIV much more susceptible to tuberculosis (TB). The study is published in the online Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National ...
Jul 23, 2013
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The impact of the pandemic on the African continent has been varied due to the fact that African countries are not on equal footing. For example, the lowest income countries may have among the highest burden of infectious ...
Dec 15, 2021
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South African pharmaceutical company Aspen said Monday it was releasing its first batch of African-produced COVID-19 vaccines under a licensing deal with the US giant Johnson & Johnson.
Jul 26, 2021
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Africa's top public health official says 60% of the continent's population needs to be vaccinated against the coronavirus in the next two to three years.
Dec 3, 2020
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There have been several important breakthroughs in medical science recently. Crispr, mRNA, next-generation cancer treatments and game-changing vaccines are some of them. Oyewale Tomori, a virologist with decades-long involvement ...
Oct 24, 2023
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A COVID-19 antibody survey conducted in Sierra Leone is the first nationally representative investigation of COVID-19 seroprevalence conducted on the African continent and presents evidence of large-scale underreporting of ...
Dec 21, 2021
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Another new variant of the coronavirus appears to have emerged in Nigeria, Africa's top public health official said Thursday, but he added that further investigation was needed.
Dec 24, 2020
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