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, and read on for Uganda’s record-breaking school closure, a South African company working to replicate Moderna’s vaccine, and details of Pfizer’s leaked contracts.
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See no evil: 6 in 7 COVID-19 cases in Africa go undetected, according to the WHO. That means the continent’s COVID-19 cases could be as high as 59 million, far above the...
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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, and read on for the world’s massive supply chain crisis, the divergent global economic recovery, and COVID’s unequal impact on women and those with disabilities.
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Beware the bottlenecks: The massive disruption to global supply chains could hamper the world’s economic recovery, and potentially require a redesign of the world’s shipping infrastructure. Nearly 13%...
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, and read on for the consequences of corruption for Africa’s COVID-19 recovery, a historic moment in combating malaria, and a spooky season for retailers.
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Pandora’s box, open: This week, the International Consortium of Journalists (ICIJ) launched the “Pandora Papers,” its latest leaked investigation into the murky world of “offshore” finance. The data leak...
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, and read on for intel on the UK’s massive hike in gas prices, Nigeria’s dramatic job losses, and COVAX’s plans to rectify their troubled distribution scheme.
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African Marshall Plan: President Emmanuel Macron agreed to share 20% of France’s IMF-allocated emergency funds, Special Drawing Rights. This is a good move. But it risks setting...
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, and read on for news from UNGA, the ripple effects of a nuclear submarine deal, and details on how pharmaceutical companies’ reluctance to share their technologies is fueling a human rights crisis.
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Nuclear threat: As leaders and diplomats gather in New York for the United Nations General Assembly, French fury over a cancelled order...
The global response to COVID-19 is not working. So far this year, despite the development and roll out of effective vaccines, more than twice the number of people have died from COVID-19 than in all 2020. More than 8,000 people died each day in the past week.
A new target to vaccinate 70% of the population in all country income categories by September 2022 could provide the impetus needed to bring the pandemic under control. But as ONE’s latest analysis...
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, and read on for Tanzania’s take two, Biden’s efforts to convene a global vaccine summit, and a South African genomics lab that can help close the knowledge gap on Africa-originating variants.
Powder keg: Global food prices were up 33% in August from the year earlier, hitting emerging markets the hardest, and reaching the highest prices...
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, and read on for our take on COVAX’s lowered expectations, Nigeria’s lockdown risk, and the toll of vaccine inequity on climate talks and microchip supply chains.
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Stop Biden time: Intent on building an “arsenal of vaccines for the world,” US President Joe Biden is calling for a global summit to boost vaccine supply. This...
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, and read on for the latest on the devastating nexus of conflict and COVID-19 in Ethiopia, the role of HIV in driving variant emergence, and Zambia’s debt transparency.
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Brutal crescendo: Ethiopia’s cases increased by more than 1,800% between July and September — signaling the start of an alarming third wave in a country grappling...
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, and read on for the latest on $2.3 trillion in vaccination opportunity costs, the diminishing dream of herd immunity, and COVID-19 mythbusting in Kenya.
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A race against time: Countries that aren’t able to vaccinate at least 60% of their populations by mid-2022 may have GDP losses totalling $2.3 trillion between 2022 and 2025, per...