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Africa's COVID-19 caseload approaches 4 million mark

With the introduction of vaccines, Africa hopes to slow down further spread of the virus and deaths. /VCG The number of COVID-19 infections in Africa is closing in on the four million mark as

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President Kenyatta to address nation on Kenya's COVID-19 status

FILE PHOTO: Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta speaks at a past function. /VCG Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta is scheduled to address the nation on Friday regarding the East African country's CO

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Kenya reports 2021's highest daily increase in COVID-19 cases

FILE PHOTO: A COVID-19 patient isolation center in Machacos town in eastern Kenya, on August 3, 2020. /VCG Kenya's health ministry on Thursday reported 829 new COVID-19 infections, the country

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Rwanda's Kagame receives first COVID-19 vaccine jab

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame receives his first jab of the COVID-19 vaccine at King Faisal Hospital, Kigali, Rwanda, 11 March, 2020. /Photo courtesy: Rwanda Presidency. Rwanda's President Pa

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Premier Li: China open and cooperative on COVID-19 origin tracing

05:18 China is open and cooperative on COVID-19 origin tracing, and will continue to work with the World Health Organization (WHO) on this front, Chinese Premier Li Keq

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Ohio judge asked to apologize for tying COVID-19 to China

An Ohio judge who wrote an article using the term "China virus" has been asked to apologize by multiple regional organizations. The article, distributed on March 3, came amid studies showing that dis

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EU gets more vaccines to target hard-hit borders

The European Commission says it has secured an agreement with Pfizer-BioNTech for an extra four million doses of COVID-19 vaccines for its 27 nations to tackle the surg

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Hungarian, Czech premiers to meet Israeli PM on pandemic strategy

The Hungarian and Czech prime ministers will meet Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday to discuss policies to fight COVID-19 as a third wave of the cor

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Pandemic reaches previously COVID-19-free New Caledonia

00:52 The remote Pacific territory of New Caledonia, one of the few places on the planet to have avoided COVID-19, is to go into strict lockdown after detecting nine cases.The outbreak

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Get to know China's first single-dose vaccine

29:09 China’s first Ad5-nCoV COVID-19 vaccine produced by CanSino Biologics was rolled out on February 25th. It is the only single-dose COVID-19 vaccine given conditional approval for

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Why we shouldn't take China's post-pandemic GDP numbers at face value

03:55 Editor's note: In a post-pandemic world, a COVID-19 vaccine is like the light at the end of the tunnel. At the same time, China's strong economic recovery offers hope to the worl

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UK and 4 nations to fast-track modified COVID-19 vaccines

Regulators in the U.K. and four other countries plan to fast-track the development of modified COVID-19 vaccines to ensure that drugmakers are able to move swiftly in t

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237 mln dozes of COVID-19 vaccines to be allocated by end May: WHO

237 million dozes of COVID-19 vaccines will be allocated to 142 countries by end May through the World Health Organization's (WHO) COVAX facility, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom said on Thurs

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China CDC head urges investment in science, healthcare

02:14 The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and mass vaccination against the coronavirus have made public health a hot topic at China's biggest political gathering – the Two Sessions.Gao Fu, t

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Africa's COVID-19 cases hit 3,914,044: Africa CDC

FILE PHOTO: A medical worker in personal protective equipment (PPE) inside a South Africa Health Department mobile coronavirus testing unit at OR Tambo International Airport in Johannesburg, Sout

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WHO chief calls for further research on treatment options for COVID-19

The World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. /Photo by James Chau. The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom on Wednesday called for fur

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3 new Ebola cases confirmed in east DR Congo

FILE PHOTO: Healthcare workers attending to Ebola patients. /Getty Images Three more new cases of the Ebola virus disease have been confirmed in the Butembo health zone in eastern Democratic R