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Rwanda has rolled out an Mpox vaccination campaign as the continent struggles to access enough jabs. Rwanda has started with a batch of 1000 doses obtained from Nigeria under an agreement between the two countries, AP reported. Rwanda is neighboring eastern DRC where the epicenter of Mpox is located. The Mpox outbreak was declared a […]
Nearly 13 million children in Africa missed one or more vaccinations and 8.7 million didn’t receive a single dose of any vaccine between 2019 and 2021, after Covid-19 caused service disruption, strained health systems, diverted scarce resources, while conflicts, climate change have driven this decline on the continent, a new report from United Nations Children’s […]
Morocco has shortened to five months the time span between the second and the third dose of the Covid-19 vaccine as part of an unrelenting offensive to fight the pandemic. The move is part of forward-looking measures – that may appear to be painful- but which allowed residents in the country to resume normal life. […]
Morocco presses ahead with its vaccination campaign adding the 12-17 year-old age bracket as it moves steadily towards achieving herd immunity. The decision was announced after Morocco added Pfizer vaccine shipments to its inoculation campaign, dominated so far by Sinopharm followed by AstraZeneca and 300,000 doses of Johnson and Johnson vaccine. […]
Morocco is making steady strides towards reaching herd immunity by extending vaccination to the youth aged 25 years old as the vaccine flow continues unhindered. Morocco has started a free vaccination campaign in January and has already inoculated the elderly, people with chronic diseases and frontline staff. The Moroccan health ministry has also […]