Health

Beijing closed dozens of subway stations and expanded Covid restrictions on Wednesday, constricting movement around the Chinese capital despite logging only dozens of daily cases. China has been battling its worst coronavirus flare-up since the early...

By John Ikani  The first African plant manufacturing Covid vaccines says it may have to shut down production due to lack of demand. The pharmaceutical company Aspen Pharmacare, which has been producing Johnson & Johnson vaccines...

By Ere-ebi Agedah The Democratic Republic of Congo has kicked off Ebola vaccinations to curb an outbreak in the northwest city of Mbandaka, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Wednesday. Two people are known to...

By Ere-ebi Agedah A former regional virologist at the World Health Organisation, WHO, Prof. Oyewale Tomori has stated that Africa’s over-dependence on foreign countries for vaccines is dangerous to the health of the continent. According to...

By John Ikani The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has reported a second Ebola-related death in the northwestern part of the country after declaring a new Ebola outbreak over the weekend. The outbreak is the...

By John Ikani South Africa has reported an almost 20% spike in new coronavirus infections. Almost 2,000 new cases were reported on Monday, and more than half of those were in Gauteng. Some 30 deaths were...