Health Minister Joe Phaahla has announced that children between the ages of 12 and 17 will be able to access the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine from next week. But for now they will only get a single dose. Children between the ages of 12 and 17 will be able to get one shot of the Pfizer […]
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South Africa continues to see a decline in COVID-19 infections, with new cases dropping by 28% in the past seven days. Health Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla, also announced that hospitalisations fell by 35%, although over 5 000 COVID-19 patients are still receiving treatment as of Thursday. In addition, the positivity rate is in the right […]
Health Minister, Dr Joe Phaahla, has announced that the Ministerial Advisory Committee (MAC) on COVID-19 Vaccines has advised that additional doses be given to individuals with compromised immunity. This includes those who are on long-term oral steroid therapy for autoimmune conditions and various treatments for haematological or immune malignancies. The group will also comprise those […]
The 250-bed Sawua Hospitalin the Ashanti Region will be handed over to the government this month, the contractors, Euroget De-Invest, has assured. According to the site engineer of the project, Mr Mahamaoud, said the facility will have 10 theatres, dental, orthopaedic, urology and andrology specialist clinics with a 36-body capacity mortuary, 43 medical and non-medical […]
Tunis/Tunisia — Out of the 135,211 text message invites sent on October 14, only 39,824 people honoured their jab appointments, the Health Ministry said. The number of fully vaccinated people stands at 4,149,625 and is as follows: 3,250,388 got two shots, 390,073 got one shot as the J&J/Janssen vaccine requires a single dose and a […]
Tunis/Tunisia — Tunisia logged 220 COVID-19 infections from 5,364 tests conducted on October 13, i.e. 4.10% positivity rate, taking the caseload to 710,542, according to the Health Ministry. 3 more deaths were also reported, pushing the death toll to 25,066. The number of recoveries also rose by 347 to 683,727. 9 new hospitalisations were recorded […]
Tunis/Tunisia — The governorate of Medenine had reported a one mor COVID-19 fatality in the last 24 hours, bringing the death toll to 1,148, Preventive Health Director Zayed El Anz said on Friday. Besides, 14 more infections were detected, bringing the caseload to 32,667, including 31,456 recoveries. Regarding the progress of the jab drive, 304,959 […]
Authorities at National Medical Stores (NMS) have banned all staff and visitors who are not vaccinated, citing efforts in curbing the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. Officials say one will have to present proof of full vaccination before admission into the NMS premises (including cars). The move is in line with the government’s directive to […]
The U.S.government funded Namibia Adherence and Retention Project (NARP) donated 100 footballs, 24 whistles, two-goal nets, two stopwatches and 20 chess boards to Learners of the Moses van der Byl Primary School in Katutura, Windhoek, and seven other Khomas schools. This is one of seven donations to six Regional Education Offices country-wide in support of […]
Cape Town — As of October 15, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 8,415,289 while over 102,340,806 vaccinations have been administered across the continent. Reported deaths in Africa reached 214,804 and 7,751,646 people have recovered. South Africa has the most reported cases 2,914,827 and 88,506 people died. Other most-affected countries are Morocco ( […]
A total of 196,326 Nigerians have been discharged nationwide. Nigeria has recorded six additional fatalities from the coronavirus pandemic with 226 new cases confirmed across 14 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Thursday. This was contained in an update shared on the Facebook page of the Nigeria Centre for Disease […]
Abuja — United Nations Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, has lamented that there seemed to be no easy road ahead to the recovery from COVID-19 pandemic. Speaking yesterday at the 2021 Humanitarian Action Conference in Abuja, Mohammed said, “After an extremely difficult year, we are now working towards a recovery from the pandemic to put countries […]
Deaths from tuberculosis – one of the top infectious killers in the world – have increased for the first time in a decade, as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday. New data from the UN health agency highlighted how years of global progress in tackling the […]
KAGERA region has recorded impressive performance on Covid-19 vaccination by administering 100 per cent of the doses which were distributed to the region. Kagera Regional Commissioner (RC), Major Gen Charles Mbuge explained that the region launched the vaccination campaign on August 4, this year. “We are happy to announce that the region received a total […]
Globally more than 400,000 people die of malaria annually. Africa carries a disproportionate burden of the disease. In 2019, 94% of deaths and cases were recorded in the region. History shows that two centuries ago, malaria was ravaging some countries in Europe at rates similar to those being experienced in Africa today. In Italy for […]
Cape Town — A new analysis of online content in six African nations referring to Covid-19 vaccines has revealed that posts reflecting distrust of, or hesitancy over, vaccinations are dominating social media. The analysis was carried out by a South African research group dedicated to combating fake news and misinformation, and advocating healthy online dialogue, […]
The government said the decision was taken after a careful review of the pandemic situation in the three countries. The Nigerian government has removed South Africa, Brazil and Turkey from the list of restricted countries with an embargo placed on inbound non-Nigerian passengers. According to the chairman of the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19, […]
Samples tested in Nigeria so far constitute less than 2 per cent of an estimated 206 million population. The Nigerian government on Wednesday disclosed that a total of 3,141,795 persons have been tested for the coronavirus infection since the disease broke out in 2020. This is less than 2 per cent of Nigeria’s estimated 206 […]