The Health Ministry said that 86 new coronavirus cases were detected, upping the total number of confirmed cases since the outbreak of the pandemic in the country to 284,875. In a statement on Tuesday10/8/2021, Spokesman for the Health Ministry Khaled Megahed said six patients have died from the virus over the past 24 hours, raising […]
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As of August 11, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 7,086,472 while over 51,263,030 vaccinations have been administered across the continent. Reported deaths in Africa reached 178,931 and 6,203,838 people have recovered. South Africa has the most reported cases 2,546,762 and 75,201 people died. Other most-affected countries are Morocco (711,103), Tunisia (616,764), Ethiopia (285,413), Egypt (284,875), Libya (271,981) […]
The United Nations Children Emergency Fund, UNICEF, said, yesterday, that only 50 per cent of births in Nigeria were registered. Chief of Child Protection, UNICEF, Ibrahim Sesay, who disclosed this at a briefing to mark the 2021 Civil Registration and Vital Statistics Day in Abuja, said the existence of accurate, regular and reliable statistics was […]
Nigeria will today receive 176,000 doses of Johnson & Johnson vaccines, according to the Executive Director/Chief Executive Officer of National Primary Health care Development Agency, NPHCDA, Dr. Faisal Shuaib. This is coming barely a week after the Federal Government received a little over 4 million doses of Moderna vaccines from the US government. He also […]
The current resurgence of cholera in 22 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, is a worrisome public health crisis, especially coming amid the emergence of the highly infectious Delta variant which signposts the third wave of COVID-19 cases. Since the beginning of the latest outbreak in 2021, no less than 816 […]
The Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has reintroduced restriction in public places as Ekiti recorded 180 new cases of COVID-19 in the third wave of the pandemic between July and August, 2021. Determined to stem the tide of the lethal infection, the governor has imposed restrictions on social, religious, political gatherings across the state […]
The federal government has scored itself high in the management of the COVID-19 pandemic, declaring that since the outbreak of the scourge, its interventions have been proactive and people-centred. But, it pointed out that Nigeria, like most countries in the world, is experiencing a new economic and social reality because of the COVID-19 crisis. Like […]
The government has ordered all civil servants to be vaccinated in two weeks or risk disciplinary action after only a few voluntarily went for the jab against Covid-19. Head of the Public Service Joseph Kinyua said some State officers have deliberately avoided getting vaccinated so that they can stay at home, negatively affected service delivery. […]
Though scanty in details, the inter-governmental arrangement that creates a special route for Kenyan nurses to temporarily work in the United Kingdom is several steps in the right direction. For decades, Kenyan nurses have complained how the powers that be belittle them and fail to recognise their input in healthcare. Failure to grab this opportunity […]
Maputo — The Mozambican health authorities on Monday reported many more recoveries from the Covid-19 respiratory disease than new cases, thus bringing down the number of active Covid-19 cases. A Ministry of Health Monday press release said that 4,486 people were declared to have made a complete recovery. The great majority of these – 3,389 […]
Maputo — A further 500,000 doses of the VeroCell vaccine, produced by the Chinese company Sinopharm, for the fight against the Covid-19 pandemic, arrived in Maputo on Monday. According to a Ministry of Health press release, Deputy Health Minister Lidia Cardoso verified the vaccines at the government’s Central Medical Stores in the outlying Maputo neighbourhood […]
Since the first outbreak of the global pandemic in 2019, among the sectors that were dealt with a severe blow is the global transport sector. We all know the importance of this sector in the efficient functioning of our national economies. Apart from providing vital and essential linkages to global markets, it also facilitates easy […]
… Phikwe West MP, Dithapelo Keorapetse The efforts of and information that SKI Foundation has provided on vaccines should be appreciated and followed up swiftly if government is serious about saving lives. What’s wrong with SKI Khama Foundation finding vaccines? Two people, including a senior BDP Member, told me weeks ago that securing vaccines was […]
IN the past, cassava was associated with backwardness. In one of his gripping sermons, veteran Seventh Day Adventist Evangelist Mpundu Mweshi described how Zambians who hailed from Luapula Province were mocked at boarding schools and colleges over their staple food. Until five years ago, cassava was widely scorned as inferior to maize and of little […]
The Covid 19 scourge has greatly affected financial transactions in co-operative societies as monthly contributions continue to dive leading to the need for variation of loan repayments, a new study has shown. It says reduction in monthly contributions and loan repayments is due to loss of income, jobs and reduced economic activities. While impact of […]
Nairobi — It is now mandatory for public servants in Kenya to get the COVID-19 jab. The new directive is contained in a confidential circular issued to all Principal Secretaries and Accounting Officers by the Head of Public Service Joseph Kinyua. In the circular seen by Capital FM News, public servants are required to get […]
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Namibia: ‘Thank You for Saving My Life’
EVERY morning before her shift starts, nurse Mercy Mosemedi likes to read letters from patients who have just been discharged from hospital. They warm her heart, she says. The thank-you letters are mostly hand-written notes from numerous patients, including those who survived Covid-19. Some of them never thought they would make it out of the […]
Dr Ncumisa Jilata’s journey from a childhood classroom in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape to becoming the youngest neurosurgeon in Africa may have begun with a glass of water. That feeling of sipping a cold drink, holding the glass in your hand, and the rush of thirst-quenching pleasure, was a visual picture given by Jilata’s […]