Coronavirus: What’s happening in Canada and around the world on Friday – CBC
‘The threat of a third wave in Africa is real and rising,’ WHO official says
Jun 04, 2021
The World Health Organization says COVID-19 vaccine shipments have ground to “a near halt” in Africa while coronavirus cases have spiked 20 per cent over the last two weeks.
South Africa, the country with the highest coronavirus caseload in Africa, continued to face delays in its effort to roll out the single-dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine. More than one million J&J doses remain on hold at a pharmaceuticals plant in South Africa because of contamination concerns at a U.S. factory.
The head of the Africa CDC said he expects an announcement from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on those contamination issues soon.
South Africa alone has seen more than 1.6 million reported cases of COVID-19 and more than 56,000 deaths, according to Johns Hopkins University’s COVID-19 tracker.
Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/coronavirus-covid19-canada-world-june4-2021-1.6053031
