A roundup of the latest news, stats, and analysis of COVID-19’s impact in Africa. View our data tracker and sign up for our weekly newsletter. This week, news about Uganda’s education crisis, mounting financial pressure on vaccine big pharma, and Nigeria’s planned COVID vaccine production.
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Lost generation: Uganda’s schools reopened after nearly two years of COVID-19 closures – the longest in the world. More than 50% of students stopped learning as a result. One-third of students are expected to stay out of...
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A roundup of the latest news, stats, and analysis of COVID-19’s impact in Africa. View our data tracker and sign up for our weekly newsletter. This week, news about a “World’s Vaccine” is raising hopes, South Africa waves goodbye to Omicron’s peak, and a KFC chip crisis could benefit Kenya’s potato farmers.
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Model behavior: A new COVID vaccine is on the block – and the US scientists behind it decided to make it available to the world (read: no patents,...
A roundup of the latest news, stats, and analysis of COVID-19’s impact in Africa. View our data tracker and sign up for our weekly newsletter. This week, we bring you the latest on pandemic profiteering, a vaccine hoarding redux, and Africa’s vaccine mandates.
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Africa rising: COVID-19 cases are surging across Africa, with many countries experiencing a fourth wave amidst the Omicron variant. In Nigeria, the number of daily confirmed infections over the past week jumped from 76 to 451,...
A roundup of the latest news, stats, and analysis of COVID-19’s impact in Africa. View our data tracker and sign up for our weekly newsletter. This week, we’re sharing the latest on Omicron’s antibody evasions, Kenya’s vaccine black market, and the complex factors behind vaccine wastage in Nigeria.
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Vaccine bandits: A black market for vaccines is undermining Kenya’s vaccination campaign, just weeks before a mandate goes into effect. Corrupt officials are diverting vaccines, falsifying records, and smuggling vials (to mostly remote...
A roundup of the latest news, stats, and analysis of COVID-19’s impact in Africa. View our data tracker and sign up for our weekly newsletter. This week, Omicron concerns escalate, World AIDS Day underscores the double-bind between HIV and the pandemic, and African countries push for common sense vaccine etiquette.
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Omicron rising: Health officials in South Africa announced Wednesday that the Omicron variant has become the most prevalent version of COVID-19 in the country. The number of cases doubled from...
A roundup of the latest news, stats, and analysis of COVID-19’s impact in Africa. View our data tracker and sign up for our weekly newsletter. This week, we’re covering mental health in the face of COVID-19 unemployment, the bitter combination of diabetes and COVID-19, and the pandemic’s pollution problem.
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Face, meet palm: At least 1 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been thrown away since last December in Canada, roughly 2.6% of the total number of doses delivered across the country. Some...
A roundup of the latest news, stats, and analysis of COVID-19’s impact in Africa. View our data tracker and sign up for our weekly newsletter. This week, we’re covering mental health in the face of COVID-19 unemployment, the bitter combination of diabetes and COVID-19, and the pandemic’s pollution problem.
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Surge campaign: Nigeria plans to administer more than 1 million vaccines a day, starting this Friday. The surge is intended to vaccinate half of its target population, or 55 million...
A roundup of the latest news, stats, and analysis of COVID-19’s impact in Africa. View our data tracker and sign up for our weekly newsletter. This week, we’re covering J&J’s conflict zone commitments, why COVID treatments should be tested in Africa, and big tobacco’s big tax breaks in Zambia.
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Dose deployment: Johnson & Johnson will make its vaccines available for NGOs to deploy in conflict settings, waiving liability restrictions that have previously prevented nongovernmental actors from administering them. The US government will...
A roundup of the latest news, stats, and analysis of COVID-19’s impact in Africa. View our data tracker and sign up for our weekly newsletter. This week, we’re focused on the intersection of climate, COVID, and conflict from COP26 to Ethiopia’s state of emergency.
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12 years of waiting: Rich countries failed to mobilise the $100 billion in climate finance that they promised to developing nations (ahem) 12 years ago. Meanwhile, 34 of the world’s poorest countries spend five times more on debt payments than...
A roundup of the latest news, stats, and analysis of COVID-19’s impact in Africa. View our data tracker and sign up for our weekly newsletter. Read on for intel on the G20’s pandemic priorities ahead of this weekend’s Summit, how Sudan’s coup threatens pandemic recovery, the growing threats to Nigeria’s stability, and Merck’s commitment to COVID treatment equity.
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Coup d’Abdalla: Sudan’s military leaders seized power on Monday, arresting Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdock and derailing a transition to democratic rule...