South African firm to produce Pfizer vaccine, a first for Africa Tokyo virus cases hit 6-month high, 2 days before Games open WHO says 3.4M global virus cases last week, up 12%; says virus risk inevitable at Tokyo Olympics
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NAIROBI, Kenya African countries next week will begin receiving the first of 400 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine they are purchasing themselves, according to the African Union special envoy on vaccine acquisition.
Strive Masiyiwa told journalists that 6 million doses will begin to ship next week and 45 African countries should receive their first shipment by the end of August. Masiyiwa says all doses should be delivered by September 2022.
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DELHI, India India’s government has dismissed a recent study which estimated that the country’s excess deaths during the pandemic could be 10 times the official COVID-19 toll, calling it “misleading” and “fallacious.”
On Tuesday, new research by the Center for Global Development estimated excess deaths the gap between those recorded and those that would have been expected to be 3.4 million to 4.7 million since the pandemic began. It said an accurate figure may “prove elusive” but the true death toll “is likely to be an order of magnitude greater than the official count.”
On Thursday, the health ministry released a statement saying the methodology in the study was misleading and strongly cautioned against attributing all of the excess deaths to COVID-19.
TOKYO Tokyo s COVID-19 infections surged to a six-month high Wednesday with the Olympic host city logging 1,832 new cases just two days before the Games open. Tokyo is currently under its fourth state of emergency, which will last until Aug. 22, covering the entire duration of the Olympics that start Friday and end Aug. 8. Fans are banned from all venues in the Tokyo area, with limited audiences at a few outlying sites. What we have worried about is now actually happening, Japan Medical Association President Toshio Nakagawa said at a weekly news conference. The surge in cases has been expected whether we have the Olympics or not, and we are afraid that there will be an explosive increase in cases regardless of the Olympics.
The Latest: S Korea has new daily high for 2nd day in a row
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SEOUL, South Korea South Korea is reporting 1,842 newly confirmed coronavirus cases for the previous 24 hours setting a new pandemic single-day record for the second straight day.
The cases announced Thursday raised the country s total caseload to 184,103, with 2,063 deaths from COVID-19.
The new cases include 270 sailors who were recently flown home after a large-scale outbreak on their destroyer engaging in an anti-piracy mission off East Africa.
South Korea has seen a spike in infections in recent weeks amid a slow vaccination campaign, lax pu