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LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) — A 12-year-old Masai giraffe as died hours after delivering a full-term stillborn calf, the Los Angeles Zoo announced Tuesday. Hasina, 12, was pregnant with her sixth calf, but due to the abnormal breech position, a natural delivery was not possible, zoo officials said. A team of more than 30 of the zoo’s Animal Care and Animal Health staff worked for five hours starting on Monday morning to remove the unborn calf and save Hasina’s life. READ MORE: Search Warrant Executed To Obtain Black Box Data In Tiger Woods Crash The procedure was successful and Hasina recovered from the anesthesia, was standing on her own, and appeared to be doing well – but zoo officials say she died Monday night. (credit: Los Angeles Zoo) “Hasina was a healthy giraffe in her prime, so we were hopeful that she would survive,” Dr. Dominique Keller, the zoo’s chief veterinarian and director of animal health and wellness, said in a statement. “There were many complicating … [Read more...] about Los Angeles Zoo Giraffe ‘Hasina’ Dies After Delivering Full-Term Stillborn Calf

African countries have accelerated their vaccination drives against COVID-19 over the past week. In a boost for so-called vaccine equity, Cote d'Ivoire became the second country on the continent to receive vaccine supplies from the COVAX facility. COVAX is an initiative launched by the World Health Organization with partners in a bid to ensure the world's most vulnerable people can get vaccinated. Under the initiative, 504,000 doses of a vaccine from Oxford University and AstraZeneca arrived in the Cote d'Ivoire capital Abidjan on Friday. Two days earlier, Ghana became the first African country to get supplies from COVAX, with 600,000 doses of the Oxford and AstraZeneca vaccine. On Friday, Matshidiso Moeti, the WHO's regional director for Africa, said the continent has stepped up procurement of vaccines to inoculate groups at higher risk of contracting the coronavirus. "It is good news to learn that more countries in Africa are receiving COVID-19 vaccines from the COVAX … [Read more...] about Africa’s vaccine rollout steadily gathers speed