“Africa needs the skills and capacity to manufacture its own vaccines, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said Monday, as the continent lags other global regions in inoculating against COVID-19.”
“South Africa’s government has started outlining its COVID-19 inoculation plans, despite not yet receiving a single vaccine dose, as it faces criticism over unrealistic targets and a lack of clarity.”
“Six men in yellow biohazard suits clamber in suffocating heat towards a cave in the heart of the Gabonese jungle. Their quest: to unlock new knowledge on how pathogens like coronavirus leap the species barrier to humans.”
“Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised to ‘flush out’ political opponents on Tuesday, as activist groups said that scores of campaigners and protesters have been arrested in an expansive clampdown over the past week.”
“Run by a Cameroon-raised, Harvard-trained molecular biologist, a lab in southern Nigeria is at the forefront in the fight against Ebola, Lassa fever – and now COVID-19.”
“In a statement, he said there had been ‘weaknesses in organisation and clarity between the various teams in charge of the response to the pandemic in South Kivu.'”
“Senegalese President Macky Sall announced the re-opening of mosques and churches and the easing of other restrictions imposed to contain the coronavirus, even as the largest one-day jump in cases was recorded on Monday.”
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