Progress report African region 21 - Timeline of Events
Timeline of Events
2021
1 February
Continuous drop in COVID-19 cases across the Region
7 February
Outbreaks of Ebola are declared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
14 February
Outbreaks of Ebola are declared in Guinea
18 February
Launch of the Global SPRP for 2021
24 February
Ghana receives first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX Facility
12–13 April
Summit on “Expanding Africa’s Vaccine Manufacturing for Health Security” by the African Union and Africa Centres for Disease Control (Africa CDC)
22 April
Launch of the 2021 WHO African Region COVID-19 Strategic Preparedness and Response Plan
12 May
The Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response commissioned by the WHO Director-General on the COVID-19 pandemic response releases its report
80 000 people cross the border from Goma, in the DRC to Rwanda, fleeing from the eruption of Mount Nyiragongo volcano, one of many multihazard emergencies
24 May
The WHO African Region enters the third wave
13 June
G7 summit pledges donation of 870 million vaccine doses by 2023 to poorer nations
15 July
19 countries in the WHO African Region are considered to be experiencing a resurgence; increase in the number of COVID-19-related deaths.
27 July
South Africa announces plans to manufacture 400 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine – 100 million per year –, in a partnership between Pfizer and the public-private consortium Biovac Institute, in Cape Town.
