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Egypt will bar unvaccinated public service workers from entering government buildings from mid-next month. A cabinet notice on Sunday said workers would have to be vaccinated or take a weekly Covid test to be allowed into government buildings from 15 November.

Eritrea is the only country in the African continent that has not yet started vaccinating its citizens against COVID-19 within the scope of a national campaign. According to national media reports, after the vaccination campaign started in Tanzania on July 28, and Burundi

More than 600,000 people in England and Wales were told to self-isolate by the National Health Service (NHS) COVID-19 app from July 8 -15, data revealed Thursday. A record 618,903 people were sent self-isolation alerts, a 17% increase from the previous

Presidential Advisor on Health, Dr. Anthony Nsiah Asare, says authorities are working earnestly to secure the second doses of AstraZeneca vaccines to begin phase 2 of the vaccination for those who were only able to get their first jabs. Dr. Asare

He said the multi-sectoral interventions provided a boost in early case identification and management of the disease in the high burden regions of the country, in alignment to the national COVID-19 response plan. Those interventions also contributed to strengthening health systems,

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has encouraged Ghanaians to continue to wear face masks to protect themselves and others against the coronavirus despite the discomfort associated with it. The president stated that although he is aware Ghanaians are tired of wearing

The Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman Manu has given assurances of the deployment of enhanced measures at Ghana’s airport to curb the surge in COVID-19 cases, This comes on the back of a statement released by Frontier Healthcare Services alerting the

The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control (Africa CDC) have urged African countries not to destroy Covid-19 vaccines that have expired. The WHO is asking countries on the continent to hold on to expired stock and