Africa CDC Signs With Pfizer For COVID Pill For African Countries

Africa’s top public health agency says it had signed a memorandum of understanding with Pfizer for countries on the continent to receive supplies of the Paxlovid pill to treat COVID-19. <br />The acting director of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, Ahmed Ogwell Ouma, says the MOU would allow African countries to access Paxlovid at cost. <br />The World Health Organization says that deaths in the continent from COVID-19 are expected to fall by nearly 94 per cent in 2022 compared with last year.