BRAZZAVILLE, Congo – Africa faces a 470 million shortfall in COVID-19 vaccine doses this year after the Covax alliance cut its projected shipments, raising the risk of new and deadly variants, the WHO said on Thursday. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO's Africa director (AFP/File) Only 17 percent of the...
THE VIEW FROM RIZAL Dr. Jun Ynares “Are we at a worse situation today than where we were a year ago?” This was the worried message I got from a relative recently. She said she heard the news that the country registered a staggering 7,000-plus new cases of COVID-19 infection. This, according to...