WHO begins shipment of 100 million doses of Chinese manufactured Sinovac and Sinopharm shots mostly to Africa and Asia
The WHO pandemic programme is planning to ship 100 million doses of the Sinovac and Sinopharm Covid-19 shots by the end of next month mostly to Africa and Asia. This will be its first delivery of Chinese vaccines. The announcement was contained in a WHO document. Out of the number, half will be provided by […]
Ghana Covid-19 deaths hit over 1,000 mark
Ghana’s Covid-19 deaths have surpassed the one thousand mark as the country battles a third wave of the disease. By the official case count released by the Disease Surveillance Department of the Ghana Health Service (GHS) yesterday a total of one thousand and one fatalities have been recorded since the disease hit the country on […]
Spillgates of Bagre Dam now opened causing severe floods, damaging property of residents
Spillage of water from the Bagre Dam in Burkina Faso has commenced. With it has come a lot of hardship on residents in the Northern, Upper West and Upper East regions who have had major roads, farmlands and property inundated by the floodwaters. Although the floods, resulting from the Bagre and Kompienga dams, do not […]
Afghanistan: UK’s Kabul evacuation ends today, says military
The UK’s evacuation of civilians from Afghanistan will end on Saturday, the head of the armed forces has said. Gen Sir Nick Carter said there were still some civilian flights leaving Kabul for the UK, but “very few now”. He added it was “heartbreaking” they had not been able to rescue everybody, with hundreds of […]
