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Since the COVID-19 outbreak was declared a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC) by the World Health Organization (WHO), there are over 183 million COVID-19 confirmed cases, and a staggering 4 million deaths worldwide. To date, this global COVID-19 death toll almost totals the entire population of Liberia.
By Sara Beysolow Nyanti, MPA; Tolbert Nyenswah, LLB, MPH; Dougbeh Chris Nyan, MD; and Mardia Stone, MD, MPH
The Global North (a specific reference to countries in Europe and North America) is making progress in vaccinating its populations, while the Global South (countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Oceania, often referred to as ‘least developed’ or ‘developing’) is disproportionally affected. With more fragile health systems, sub-Saharan Africa will very likely become home to the next COVID-19 hotspots.
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By Maggie Fick NAIROBI (Reuters) - After a stressful year working as a doctor at Kenya s largest public hospital in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Ngala Mwendwa got his first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine in March and breathed a sigh of relief. The Indian-manufactured shot was supplied by COVAX, a global vaccine initiative that s been a lifeline for poor African nations. But with India now engulfed in its own crisis, Mwendwa has no idea when he will get his second dose. It s just the way we are disadvantaged as a third world country, he told Reuters after a shift in Kenyatta National Hospital s paediatric intensive care ward. It s scary. Before it was hit by the world s highest numbers of daily infections, India had been vital to global vaccination efforts. Its Serum Institute of India, the world s biggest producer of the AstraZeneca vaccine, was the cornerstone of COVAX s supply chain. But sources told Reuters this week that India s vaccine exports, halted in March, are unlikel