Brazil, India, Turkey, South Africa Diplomats to quarantine in FG facilitates The federal government has raised the alarm over the rising cases of the Delta variant of the COVID-19 in the country, especially in seven states. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman, PSC, Boss Mustapha, raised the alarm on Monday […]
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With the backdrop of disease outbreaks in the country and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, experts have proffered ways to strengthen the country’s health security as well as reducing risk to future outbreaks. They gave the advice during the Nigerian Conference of Applied and Field Epidemiology, (NiCAFE), coordinated by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). […]
The Federal Government has threatened to impose severe restrictive measures in the wake of the upsurge in cases of COVID-19. While it said, “nothing is ruled out as all options are on the table” with regards to protecting the population, it disclosed that Lagos now accounts for over 50 per cent of cases, followed by […]
All data indicate that we are now no doubt in the third wave of resurgence of the SARS-COV-2 infection The Nigerian government has officially confirmed that the third wave of the coronavirus pandemic is already in the country. Both the Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, and the health minister, Osagie Ehanire, made the disclosure at […]
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Namibia: The Perfect San Storm
The year 2021 has not brought any respite to Namibia from the tragedy and hardship that befell the nation through the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, things have gotten worse and everyone is just battling to stay alive and trying to manage with the assets, resources and infrastructure that is available. The COVID-19 pandemic has made […]
Namibia and South Africa will be downgraded from being classified as virus variant areas by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI), to now being areas of high risk, an executive said last week Friday in a statement. Lufthansa Group General Manager Southern Africa and East Africa, Andre Schulz in a statement said this means it is […]
Zimbabwe has been making great strides to protect its citizens against the Covid-19 pandemic in one of the most successful inoculation programmes in Africa, with at least 12 million Covid-19 vaccine doses already paid for and more than 2,4 million doses injected. The country currently ranks eighth in Africa in terms of administering vaccines and […]
Bulawayo Metropolitan Province’s capacity to fight the Covid-19 pandemic has been boosted by the re-opening after 20 years, of Ekusileni Medical Centre with patients now being admitted starting last week. The hospital premises are owned by the National Social Security Authority (NSSA) and it was opened in 2000 before it closed in 2001. Bulawayo’s acting […]
Lawyers have challenged President Museveni’s orders that institutions should stop frustrating scientists who are making efforts to come up with breakthrough inventions for Covid-19 pandemic fight. Mr Museveni, in his televised address to the nation last Friday, while talking about the great efforts being put by scientists to develop therapeutics for Covid-19, said: “Last and […]
The vaccines, which were delivered through the COVAX facility, had earlier arrived in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, around 2:15 a.m. on Sunday. The Nigerian government on Monday received four million and eighty doses of the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine donated by the Biden-Harris administration of the United States of America. The vaccines, which were delivered through […]
Individuals operating businesses in Kampala City have to meet a number of stringent new conditions aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19 as they reopen today. This follows the easing of the lockdown by the President last Friday. The new conditions were issued by the Minister for Kampala and her deputy last Saturday at Uganda […]
THERE is adage that says ‘a golden chance never comes twice’, simply meaning that if one has a chance to do something, they better do it. A golden opportunity for Tanzanians to undergo Covid -19 vaccination has been availed to them after President Samia Suluhu Hasssan flagged off the immunisation campaign last Wednesday in Dar […]
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Uganda: More Covid-19 Vaccines Arrive
Kampala — Following recent calls from African leaders to manufacturers and rich countries to ensure equity in distribution of the desperately needed COVID-19 vaccines, the World Health Organisation (WHO) Africa Region Office has reported a marked increase in shipment of the vaccines over the last two weeks. About four million doses from the COVAX Facility […]
As of August 2, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 6,746,085 while over 46,413,600 vaccinations have been administered across the continent. Reported deaths in Africa reached 171,029 and 5,900,014 people have recovered. South Africa has the most reported cases 2,456,184 and 72,191 people died. Other most-affected countries are Morocco (629,717), Tunisia (595,532), Egypt (284,311), Ethiopia (280,565), […]
July was easily Zimbabwe’s worst month for Covid-19 infections and deaths, basically doubling all the new cases and deaths since the first case was recorded in March last year, with 1 743 (49,35 percent) of the total of 3 532 deaths recorded and 58 996 (54,19 percent) of the 108 860 confirmed infections. On the […]
South Africa has received 2.8 million Pfizer vaccine doses from the United States as part of a donation that is set to boost the country’s vaccination rollout campaign. Acting Health Minister Mmamoloko Kubayi was joined by Deputy Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla and the Chief of Mission at the US Embassy in South Africa, Todd Haskell, […]
The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said the state recorded six COVID-19-related deaths within two days, increasing pandemic-related mortality to 384. Abayomi disclosed this through his Facebook account @ProfAkinolaAbayomi, yesterday while giving the state’s COVID-19 update for July 30 and 31. The commissioner disclosed that 4,437 tests were conducted on the reported […]
The 407 new cases have raised Nigeria’s total infection to 174,315. Nigeria on Sunday confirmed 407 new cases of coronavirus infections across 16 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Though the figure is less than the 497 recorded 24 hours earlier, it is still high compared to the consistent steep reduction […]