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Added on the 05/01/2021 22:06:16 - Copyright : Euronews EN
In tonight's edition: A new deal paves the way for the development of the first African owned Covid-19 vaccines. Cape Town based Afrigen is working with a Belgian biotech company to develop mRNA shots. Kenya has no reproductive health legislation but the public is going to give it's input on a regional bill that could make a big difference to sexual health services. And Senegal's Sadio Mané moves to Bayern Munich.
It comes with Europe in the midst of another wave of COVID, driven in some countries by the more transmissible Omicron variant.
The statement did not specify whether he had been infected with the Omicron variant.
"We have very effective vaccines that have proven to be effective against all variants so far, in terms of severity of disease and hospitalisation, and there is no reason to think that this would not be the case with Omicron," said WHO emergency manager.
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