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COVID-19 could have been contained – Epidemics That Didn’t Happen: First-of-Its-Kind Interactive Report from Resolve to Save Lives Highlights Global Epidemic Response Successes

Charles Wundengba
Last year, a single outbreak of deadly infectious disease travelled around the world, changing life as we know it. But every year, there are many...
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Using Data to Report on the Human Impact of COVID-19: New Resources from the Partnership on Evidence-Based Response to COVID-19 (PERC)

Charles Wundengba
Last week, the Partnership for Evidence-Based COVID-19 Response (PERC) released findings from its third survey, which polled more than 25,000 adults from 19 African Union...
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How much Ghana is paying for AstraZeneca’s COVID-19 vaccine

Charles Wundengba
This new strain is estimated to be up to 70% more infectious and 65% more fatal than the previous strain. With the B.1.17 strain increasing...
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The Rockefeller Foundation Commits Nearly USD 35 Million To Covid-19 Response Efforts In Africa

Charles Wundengba
The Rockefeller Foundation announces an initial USD 34.95 million to ensure more equitable access to Covid-19 testing and vaccines; leverage innovation, data, machine-learning; combat the...
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Meet the five young faces combatting COVID-19

Opportunitydesk.org
In April this year, global entrepreneurship platform AdamStart launched an open call for social impact ideas which solve challenges associated with the Coronavirus pandemic. In...
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Economy escapes contraction in Q1 despite COVID-19 scare

Bernard Yaw Ashiadey
Despite the coronavirus pandemic biting economies around the world hard, with many seeing a contraction – especially the developed ones, Ghana’s economy was able to...