Description The Vaccines
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The Nobel Prize for Medicine is awarded jointly to Hungarian biochemist Katalin Kariko and American physician Drew Weissman for their work on messenger RNA (mRNA) technology that led to the creation of Covid-19 vaccinations. SOUNDBITE
WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus offers his "warmest congratulations" to doctor Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, who just won the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for their work in developing the technology that led to mNRA vaccines against Covid 19. The World Health Organization declared Covid-19 a pandemic in March 2020 and the first mRNA vaccines were approved for use against the illness in December that year. Billions of Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna doses have been injected around the world since then. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron opens a global summit in Paris to produce more vaccines in Africa, attended by a number of African leaders, donors and pharmaceutical groups. IMAGES
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye is welcomed by French President Emmanuel Macron at the presidential palace on his first visit outside Africa. Faye, who was inaugurated on April 2, is taking part in the Global Forum for Vaccine Sovereignty and Innovation in Paris. IMAGES
The Health Minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Samuel-Roger Kamba, thanks the European Union after the first vaccines against Mpox, donated by the EU arrived in the country, the epicentre of the epidemic, which is due to receive a total of 200,000 doses this week. "My initial reaction is one of joy and satisfaction at the cooperation we have with the European Union," Kamba adds. SOUNDBITE
The Democratic Republic of Congo, the epicentre of an mpox outbreak, receives its first vaccines -- almost half of 200,000 doses donated by the European Union and due to arrive by the end of the week to fight its spread. IMAGES
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