{"id":21674,"date":"2021-02-16T12:53:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-16T09:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=21674"},"modified":"2021-02-16T13:08:32","modified_gmt":"2021-02-16T10:08:32","slug":"hope-who-clears-way-for-dispatch-of-covid-vaccine-to-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2021\/02\/16\/hope-who-clears-way-for-dispatch-of-covid-vaccine-to-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"HOPE! WHO Clears Way For Dispatch Of COVID Vaccine To Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved two versions of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, clearing the way for the vaccines to be shipped to African countries through the Covax scheme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Covax is a global initiative in which countries pool their resources to support the development of vaccines with a view to ensure that all countries receive a fair supply of effective vaccines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cCountries with no access to vaccines to date will finally be able to start vaccinating their health workers and populations at risk,\u201d said WHO Assistant-Director General Mari\u00e2ngela Sim\u00e3o.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vaccine has been found to have 63.09% efficacy and is suitable for low and middle-income countries due to easy storage requirements, WHO said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A group of experts on immunisation assembled by WHO recommended the vaccine for all age groups above 18 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vaccines are produced by AstraZeneca-SKBio in South Korea and the Serum Institute of India.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">South Africa<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-africa-55975052\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">&nbsp;last week halted its rollout of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine<\/a>&nbsp;after a study showed &#8220;disappointing&#8221; results against a new Covid variant that&#8217;s dominant in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But experts are hopeful that the vaccine will still be effective at preventing severe cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Coronavirus has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AfricaCDC\/status\/1361345571014012928\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">infected more than 3.7 million people and killed more than 98,000 on the continent<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>BBC<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The World Health Organization (WHO) has approved two versions of the Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccine for emergency use, clearing the way for the vaccines to be shipped to African countries through the Covax scheme. Covax is a global initiative in which countries pool their resources to support the development of vaccines with a view to ensure [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":21639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,467,98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-21674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-big-story","category-health","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21674"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21678,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21674\/revisions\/21678"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}