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India cremating on the streets, crisis a blow to Kenya's vaccination plans


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Flames rise from cremation pyres of 13 COVID-19 patients who died in a fire that broke out in Vijay Vallabh COVID-19 hospital, at Virar, near Mumbai, India, Friday, April 23, 2021. (AP Photo/Rajanish Kakade)
India s Covid-19 health crisis might halt the ongoing vaccination campaigns in Kenya and other African countries depending on the Covax facility for its vaccine supplies.
About 17 per cent of the world depend on Covid-19 vaccines manufactured in India.
The Indian government has reported a dire situation, with the country witnessing the worst crisis, any nation across the globe has suffered.
Hospitals in the country, which is an international medical hub, with good medical technology and personnel are currently reporting an overflow of patients in critical state. ....

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Covid-19 cases dip even as mutations worry medics


 
Stephen Otieno, the Migori Football Club goalkeeper is vaccinated against Covid-19 at Migori County Referral Hospital on April 19, 2021. Youth football clubs in Migori have sent their members for the vaccine. [Caleb Kingwara, Standard]
Kenya’s presidential lockdown in the five ‘diseased counties’ has helped reduce Covid-19 infections, according to health experts and government officials, but fatalities remain high.
Experts are also warning of a fourth wave due to mutations and that Kenyans should not lower their guard on the face of increased fatalities despite numbers of infections and hospitalisations  reducing.
President Uhuru Kenyatta locked the most affected counties on March 26 and “currently, we do not have pressure on the healthcare system as witnessed in early March and April, where patients in critical state were struggling to secure ICU beds,” said Patrick Amoth, the Director General of Health. ....

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1 in 3 people in Nairobi has been infected with Covid-19, says researchers


The survey which analysed antibodies shows seroprevalence (the level of a pathogen in a population as measured in blood serum) for the virus in Nairobi stands at 35 per cent.
Seroprevalence is a way of identifying the number of people in a given population who have developed antibodies to diseases such as SARS-CoV-2, herpes simplex and HIV, following an infection.
Antibodies are Y-shaped proteins that bind to the body’s foreign invaders and signal the immune system to get to work. They bind like a lock-and-key to the invaders whether they are viruses, bacteria, fungi or parasites.
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