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By Reuters Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday lifted a nationwide curfew, which has been in place since March last year to curb the spread of the coronavirus, with immediate effect. Speaking during the celebration of a national public holiday, Kenyatta said infections had fallen, with the daily positivity rate dropping below 5% in the past…

By Reuters Senegal recorded zero new COVID-19 cases on Wednesday for the first time since the pandemic began, the health ministry said. The West African country had its worst wave of coronavirus in July when it was recording more than 1,000 new cases a day. The health ministry has registered 73,875 cases and 1,873 deaths since…

By XINHUA Namibian mobile service provider, MTC in collaboration with the country’s health ministry on Tuesday launched a vaccination campaign dubbed, 081VAX campaign, aimed at encouraging people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. The 12 million Namibian dollars (about 822,000 U.S. dollars) campaign will provide incentives for those that get vaccinated and interested and willing people can…

By CGTN Africa Authorities at the Ugandan Ministry of Health have blocked staff who are not fully vaccinated against COVID-19 from accessing the premises. According to a notice by Director-General of Health Services, Dr. Henry Mwebesa, the position was reached in a special meeting with the aim of promoting vaccination as the country races to inoculate 21.9…

By XINHUA Uganda on Tuesday received a second batch of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines donated by the Chinese government. Margaret Muhanga, the minister of state for primary health care, received the vaccines at the National Medical Stores in Entebbe, 40 km south of the capital Kampala. She hailed the donation as her country is scaling up its…

By XINHUA The government of Tanzania announced on Monday that it has released 5.5 billion Tanzanian shillings (about 2.4 million U.S. dollars) to support 40,740 poor households affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The government has released the funds through the Tanzania Social Action Fund (TASAF) to support the affected poor households, mostly in cities and urban…

By AFP South Africa’s health products regulator on Monday said it would not approve Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine due to concerns it could increase the risk of HIV infection among men. The decision was based on earlier studies testing the safety of a modified form of adenovirus, a type of virus that causes respiratory infections,…

By AP One of the world’s last three countries to administer COVID-19 vaccines started giving out doses on Monday as the East African nation of Burundi launched its national campaign. The vaccinations started in the commercial capital, Bujumbura, though health workers told The Associated Press that barely more than a dozen people had received doses by…

By Jerry Omondi Angola on Sunday reported 183 new COVID-19 infections, taking the country’s total number of cases to 62,789. Of the new infections, 81 were males while 102 were females. The youngest patient was two years old while the oldest was 88 years old. According to figures published by the health ministry, the number of…