Only a very few Gabonese are presenting themselves for vaccination against the COVID-19 after the government lifted restrictions imposed to curb the spread of the virus in the country, a government official said. The Government of Gabon announced the lifting of the restrictions on March 9, 2022. Officials revealed that the mobile vaccination teams instituted […]
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The French embassy in Gabon has lifted the COVID-19 restrictive measures for travellers from Gabon entering France. The announcement was made on Monday, March 28, following the listing of Gabon on Feb. 16, 2022 among countries in the “green zone” of the European Union (EU). “Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, restrictions exist on […]
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A total of 1,584,243 COVID-19 tests have been carried out on a corresponding number of Gabonese in the last two years since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country. More than half of the people tested were in Libreville, the epicentre of the pandemic which hosts the biggest analyses laboratory, the Laboratoire Prof. […]
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President Ali Bongo of Gabon has announced “the lifting of all the restrictive measures put in place to slow down the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.” While announcing the removal of the measures on Wednesday, March 9, the Gabonese President said with a drastic drop in positive cases, there was no further […]
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The South Korean government has donated 547,200 doses of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccines to the Gabonese government. The vaccines were handed over on Wednesday, Feb. 9, by Ryu Chang Soo, the South Korean ambassador to the Gabon Government. Dr Guy-Patrick Obiang Ndong, Gabon’s Minister of Health, received the vaccines on behalf of the […]
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At least 695 Gabonese have so far received booster (third) COVID-19, out of the 247,000 nationals who have received their full doses of the vaccines. According to the country’s National Vaccination Committee, popularly known by the French acronym COPIVAC, since the beginning of Jan. 2022 that the campaign for booster COVID-19 doses started. The national […]
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One year after the launching of a national campaign of vaccination against the COVID-19, 28.9 per cent of Gabon citizens have so far received the first dose of vaccination against the virus. This is a far cry from the 50 per cent envisaged by the government at this stage of the campaign. The government said […]
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Authorities in Gabon say the country is recording a drop in positive cases of COVID-19. According to the Pilot Committee of the Plan for the Fight Against COVID-19 in Gabon (COPIL), from Feb. 11 to 13, the country recorded only 20 positive COVID-19 cases in three of its nine provinces. This is compared to the […]
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A total of 115 new COVID-19 positive cases were registered in Gabon between Feb. 4 and 6, 2022 from 2,979 tests carried out within the same period. According to the latest report of the Committee of the Plan for the Follow-up and Response (COPIL) against COVID-19, the figure represents a 3.9 per cent positivity rate. […]
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The Japanese Agency for International Cooperation (JICA) has donated equipment worth 75,317,786 FCFA (about 150,000 US dollars) to the Gabonese Centre for Medical Research in Lambarene. The medical equipment which was handed over to the medical research centre on Thursday, Feb. 3, comprised eight types of products and 5000 sachets of chemicals for the disinfection […]
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The Gabonese citizen coalition, COPIL-CITOYEN, has accused the country’s parliamentarians of bad faith and “being accomplices to a government that uses the COVID-19 pandemic to impose injustice on the populations.” COPIL-CITOYEN lashed out at the lawmakers in a communique issued on Wednesday, Feb. 2, 2022 following the passage of a bill on Tuesday by the […]
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Gabon’s Pilot Committee for the Fight Against COVID-19 (COPIL), says the country has recorded a drop in the number of infections from the Omicron COVID-19 variant in the country. The Omicron variant which was detected in the country on Jan. 5, 2022 had in the last two weeks constituted 30 per cent of COVID-19 infections […]
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