First vaccinations begin in Africa for
COVID-19 trial
A vaccine volunteer receives an injection at the Chris
Hani Baragwanath hospital in Soweto, Johannesburg
Wednesday, June 24, 2020. Africa’s first participation in
a COVID-19 vaccine trial has begun as volunteers
received injections developed at the University of Oxford
in Britain. /AP
Africa’s first participation in a COVID-19 vaccine trial
started Wednesday as nervous volunteers received
injections, while officials said the continent of 1.3
billion people cannot be left behind.
The large-scale trial of the vaccine developed at the
University of Oxford in Britain is being conducted in
South Africa, Britain and Brazil.
South Africa has nearly one-third of Africa’s
confirmed cases with more than 106,000, including
more than 2,100 deaths. The country late Tuesday
reported its biggest one-day death toll of 111.
“I feel a little bit scared but I want to know what is
going on with this vaccine so that I can tell my
friends and others what is going on with the study,”
one of the vaccine trial volunteers, Junior Mhlongo,
said in Johannesburg.
The African continent now has nearly 325,000 cases
as countries loosen restrictions under economic
pressure from citizens who say they have to feed their
families.
Shortages of testing materials and medical supplies
remain a problem as Africa could become the world’s
next hot spot.
The pandemic was delayed in Africa “but is picking up
speed very quickly,” the Africa Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention chief John Nkengasong said
Wednesday, with a steep increase in the number of
cases and deaths.
“Unless we act now, Africa is at risk of being left
behind on the global vaccine,” he warned a
continental discussion and urged that local
manufacturing and scientific expertise play a key role.
Cameroon, Uganda, Tanzania, Kenya and South Africa
all have highly developed clinical trial capabilities,
said Salim Abdool Karim, chair of South Africa’s
ministerial advisory committee for COVID-19.
Many other sub-Saharan African countries also have
clinical trial capacity, said Daniel Bausch, director of
the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team.
“We’re not only needing but capable of participating”
as the world races for a vaccine, South Africa’s
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said.
African leaders have been outspoken about the
continent being elbowed out in the intense global
competition for medical supplies in this pandemic, as
well as what the World Health Organization’s Africa
chief, Matshidiso Moeti, called the “distortion of the
global market for key items.”
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus urged that
the initial supply of any COVID-19 vaccine be
deployed where it’s most needed, rather than based
on the “ability to pay.”
Tedros also announced that as of this week, all 54 of
Africa’s countries now have the lab capacity to test
for the coronavirus.
In February, just two African nations could test for the
virus. The continent’s first virus case was reported on
Feb. 14.





https://africa.cgtn.com/2020/06/24/first-vaccinations-begin-in-africa-for-covid-19-trial/

Good news.

I can't wait to celebrate the end of the Virus.

Covid-19 please leave us alone.

The whole world is remorseful.

We admit that we are powerful and helpless.

Bye-Bye to Covid-19

I’m a bit confuse here

Why call it a vaccine when it has not been proven yet ?

If they are sure shit works . Make them just tell us na

kozmokaz:
I’m a bit confuse here

Why call it a vaccine when it has not been proven yet ?

If they are sure shit works . Make them just tell us na

for it to get to the stage of human trials its already a success....I believe...because God is able

Sanusiaderoju12:
for it to get to the stage of human trials its already a success....I believe...because God is able

Abeg make dem kuku open every where