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FILE PHOTO: Technicians show empty containers used for the transport of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine after the vaccines were put into refrigerated storage units at the central vaccine depot in Kitengela town on the outskirts of Nairobi, in Kenya Thursday, March 4, 2021. /Ben Curtis /VCG Kenya has …
The World Health Organization has approved the COVID-19 vaccine manufactured by China’s Sinopharm for emergency use. The announcement was made on Friday by the WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom, making it the sixth vaccine to be given Emergency Use Listing by the global health body. “This afternoon, WHO gave Emergency Use Listing to Sinopharm Beijing’s COVID-19 vaccine, making it the sixth vaccine to receive WHO validation for safety, efficacy and quality,” said Tedros at a media briefing. “This expands …
Zambian President Edgar Chagwa Lungu, on November 20, 2015 in Lusaka, Zambia (Photo by Thomas Trutschel / Photothek via Getty Images). Zambian President Edgar Lungu on Friday called on the business community to embrace digital platforms in order to reach wider markets amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The Zambian …
FILE PHOTO: Sierra Leone President Julius Maada Bio receives the Sinopharm vaccine in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on March 15, 2021. /Saidu BAH via VCG Chinese President Xi Jinping said Friday that China is willing to strengthen cooperation with and provide support and assistance for Sierra …
A man wears a mask in Kolkata, India, April 7, 2020. /AP Besides causing thousands of deaths every day, the ferocious second wave of COVID-19 in India is also causing another catastrophe, as children rendered orphans are left vulnerable to human trafficking and abuse, the United Nations …
