COVID-19 – Newstime Africa

Africa faces 470 million COVID-19 vaccine shortfall this year

September 21, 2021 no comments

NEW YORK – PRN Africa — The international COVAX initiative aimed at guaranteeing global access to the vaccines, recently announced that it was being forced to slash planned deliveries to ...

COVID-19: Rich countries should donate at least 1 billion vaccine dose...

September 5, 2021 no comments

NEW YORK – PRN Africa – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of Liberia, and Helen Clark, former Prime Minister of New Zealand, expressed deep concern over the slow pace of vaccine red...

Remove Sierra Leone from the UK red list of countries with covid 19 va...

August 20, 2021 no comments

We as Sierra Leoneans living in the UK feel it is quite unfair that our country with lower cases than most West African countries, is now listed on the red list. We feel it is also not fair that...

Hard working mid-wife dies in Sierra Leone after taking Chinese-Manufa...

June 24, 2021 no comments

A very hardworking Midwife at the PCMH hospital in Freetown, Sierra Leone hasreportedly died 7 hours after being administered with a Chinese manufacturedCOVID-19 vaccine. Reports reaching Newstime Af...

Medical oxygen should not be a luxury – we’re trying to develop ...

May 4, 2021 no comments

David Fairen-Jimenez, University of Cambridge People might once have considered oxygen a human right. But the pandemic has revealed that access to oxygen – in a pure form, for medical use – is a luxu...

COVID-19: a new challenge for clean cooking progress in Kenya

March 29, 2021 no comments

Suzanne Bartington, University of Birmingham; Jessie Pinchoff, Population Council, and William Robert Avis, University of Birmingham Over 90% of the 238 million people living in sub-Saharan Africa’s ...