Results show that high levels of preparedness and resilience should not be equated with low vulnerability.

COVID-19 cases are declining slightly but remain stubbornly high.

Almost 100 million children have been vaccinated against polio since July 2020, after activities were paused due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Vaccine shipments seem to be taking off but Africa is encountering headwinds.

Over 6400 deaths were recorded, a 2% rise compared with the previous week.

The rise in vaccine shipments comes as Africa sees its second week of falling case numbers after a steep and unbroken eight-week surge.

Ghana was the first country in the world to receive vaccines through COVAX in late February.

WHO urges African countries to urgently ramp up COVID-19 vaccinations as the squeeze on vaccine shipments eases.

Namibia, South Africa, Tunisia, Uganda and Zambia accounted for 83% of the new deaths recorded in the past week.

With case numbers doubling every three weeks, the Delta variant is spreading to a growing number of countries.

The COVID-19 upsurge comes as the vaccine supply crunch persists.

A lack of adherence to transmission prevention measures has fuelled the new surge that coincides with colder seasonal weather in southern Africa and as more contagious variants spread.

Just 2% of the continent’s nearly 1.3 billion people have received one dose and only 9.4 million Africans are fully vaccinated.

Tracking the focus of misinformation circulating on social media is difficult, but African fact-checking organizations say they have debunked more than 1300 misleading reports since the onset of the pandemic.

WHO has disbursed US$ 1.25 million to support the response in Guinea and to reinforce Ebola readiness in Cote d’Ivoire, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Senegal and Sierra Leone.

Governments, private sector and manufacturers working together to procure enough vaccine doses to protect the most vulnerable populations on the continent.

The country's achievement comes after more than two decades of sustained political commitment, surveillance and screening of cases

The last case of wild poliovirus in the region was detected in 2016 in Nigeria.

Urge governments to take measures to limit the spread of the virus.

The virus is now moving from high density urban areas to to rural areas with lower population density.