Africa's Covid-19 third wave stabilises as vaccine levels rise - WHO

A nurse administers the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccine to a man at the Bissil Health Centre within Iibissil settlement, Matapato North of Kajiado county, Kenya, on August 23, 2021. [Reuters]

A third wave of COVID-19 infections in Africa has stabilised and the continent's slow vaccination drive has picked up pace, the World Health Organisation said on Thursday.

Some 248,000 new cases were reported in the past week, down from 282,000 in mid-July, while the number of vaccinations tripled to 13 million, Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO's regional director, told an online news conference.