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Medical personnel at the Nairobi National Vaccine Depot where the country’s first batch of COVID-19 vaccines are preserved in cold storage, checks on vaccines in a cold-room in Nairobi. (Photo by Tony Karumba/AFP)
AFRICA

UAE donates much needed ultra-cold freezers to African nations

The Hope Consortium and Unicef partnership will boost countries’ vaccine rollout efforts

  • Marcia Zali
2 min read
Panic at the border: South Africa’s clever scientists discovered the Omicron Covid-19 variant last week; however, the country has now been ‘punished’ for this by countries around the world hitting us with a travel ban. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)
AFRICA

Debunked: The cruel and racist logic of Omicron travel bans

Wealthy countries were quick to ban Southern African nations from entering their borders when the Omicron variant was identified, but did not do so to each other.

  • Mia Malan
8 min read
People wearing face masks stand in a line as they wait to be vaccinated at the Sydney Olympic Park Vaccination Centre at Homebush in Sydney on August 16, 2021. (Photo by DAVID GRAY / AFP) (Photo by DAVID GRAY/AFP via Getty Images)
ANTHONY FAUCI

Vaccine passports, masks and herd immunity. Bhekisisa asks Dr Anthony Fauci

We ask the infectious diseases specialist 18 questions about the Covid-19 pandemic: from how to counter vaccine hesitancy to whether life will ever return to ‘normal’

  • Mia Malan
16 min read