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With an eye on India, Africa ramps up monitoring of coronavirus variants

With an eye on India, Africa ramps up monitoring of coronavirus variants Lesley Wroughton, Max Bearak © Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg A lab technician uses a single channel pipette dropper to test material during a covid-19 polymerase chain reaction test Feb. 10 at a laboratory in the Dunkeld suburb of Johannesburg. CAPE TOWN, South Africa With Africa accounting for only around 2 percent of global coronavirus vaccinations, health officials on the continent are looking warily at waves of infections sweeping India and elsewhere that have stoked fears of a long tail end of the pandemic. Current timelines for mass vaccination campaigns in most African countries run well into next year if not further. Confirmed cases have been rising steadily in many African countries, though quick but economically destructive restrictions on movement have clamped down surges before they’ve gotten out of control in most places.

No cold chain, no immunization - Nepal

No cold chain, no immunization Format Bade Babu Thapa (right) with UNICEF cold chain consultant Nawaraj Khadka (left) in a cold room at the Central Vaccine Store under the Department of Health Services in Kathmandu. © UNICEF Nepal/2021/PShrestha UNICEF s long-running efforts to assess, expand and strengthen Nepal’s cold chain capacity are proving crucial to the delivery of vaccines around the country as part of the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination campaign “Getting the vaccines themselves is one part of the work, but without proper storage and transport systems, it’s not possible to take them to the community”, says Bade Babu Thapa, Senior Pharmacy Officer at the Central Vaccine Store in Kathmandu, under the Government of Nepal’s Department of Health Services, while talking about the importance of a strong cold chain – which refers to a series of precisely coordinated events in temperature-controlled environments to store, manage and transport vaccines – in ensuring th

People to watch in the distribution of Covid-19 jab

Seven men and one woman are the persons to watch as Kenya receives Covid-19 vaccine today. Despite the country’s celebrated experience and success in rollout of vaccines, the global politics surrounding the manufacture and distribution of the coronavirus jab is making it a dicey affair. These eight persons must ensure a successful rollout, dispel cynicism of Kenyans and guarantee integrity of the exercise. To build public confidence in the exercise, President Uhuru Kenyatta must keep tabs on the rollout to avoid a repeat of the Kenya Medical Supplies Agency (Kemsa) scandal, which punctured trust in health management systems. Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe will either rise or fall with the vaccines. He cannot get it wrong, especially after the Kemsa scandal, which he somehow managed to wriggle out of. 

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