Calls to lift COVID-19 vaccine patents grow louder

The debate mounts over the lifting of patent restrictions on the manufacture of coronavirus vaccines, as the US shifts its position.

Also, the Queen Regent of the Zulu nation is laid to rest.

And the insecurity faced by many Nigerian students as the spate of kidnappings spreads south.

(Picture: Workers load a truck with 350,000 doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccines at the Kotoka International Airport in Accra, Ghana. Credit: Reuters)