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The World Health Organisation (WHO) Regional Office for Africa in Brazzaville, Congo, on Thursday, said that COVID-19 cases and deaths are surging in Africa as new, more contagious variants of the virus spread. The UN health agency in a statement posted on its website stated that over 175,000 new COVID-19 …

Contrary to insinuations in some quarters that the just-completed yellow fever vaccination exercise conducted in Bauchi State is to serve as COVID-19 vaccination, the Executive Secretary, Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency (BSPHCDA), Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, has declared that yellow fever vaccines are not the same as COVID-19 vaccines. …

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent stood at 3,515,047 as of Friday, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. According to the health agency’s dashboard, the death toll related to the pandemic in Africa was 89,993 on Friday. A total of 2,990,890 …