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On the 18th February 2021, the Ministry of Health (MOH) called a meeting to establish a steering committee to coordinate activities of the National Health Observatory. The meeting held at the WHO Country Office in Eritrea was attended by 15 participants from Ministry of Health; Ministry of National development (statistics office); Ministry of Labor and Social Welfare, Ministry of Land Water and Environment and Ministry of Agriculture, WHO and UNICEF. 

On the 24th Feb 2021, WHO has supported the Ministry of Health, specifically the National Medicines and Food Administration (NMFA), with delivery of crucial IT equipment, that will significantly contribute to efficiency of medicines and health product registration. 

Asaba, 25 February 2021 - “I was really worried for the life of my daughter when she became weak after several episodes of watery stooling and vomiting, but now I can relax because she is getting the treatment she needs at the hospital, says Mrs Erekake, the mother of Tamara, a four-year-old female patient who is being treated at the Bomadi General Hospital in Delta state. 

02 March 2021 — One hundred, and twenty-five (125) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 4578 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases nineteen thousand, one hundred, and eleven (19111). To date, seventeen thousand, three hundred, and forty-two (17472) patients have recovered, including one hundred, and fifty (150) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is one thousand, three hundred, and seventy-four (1374) and two hundred, and sixty-five (265) deaths. 

Kigali, 3 March 2021 — Rwanda today received the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccines through the COVAX initiative. The first batch of 240,000 doses of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine arrived in Kigali on Wednesday morning. A second shipment of 102,960 doses of the Pfizer vaccine, also from the COVAX facility is expected to arrive on Wednesday evening. 

Ghana has launched a vaccination campaign against the novel corona virus disease days after taking delivery of the historic first shipment of the COVAX vaccines.