By XINHUA The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 7,222,853 as of Saturday afternoon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the African Union, said the death toll from the pandemic stands at 182,452 while 6,334,958 patients across the continent have recovered…
By XINHUA The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 7,074,924 as of Tuesday afternoon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the African Union, said the death toll from the pandemic stands at 178,160 while 6,173,498 patients across the continent have recovered…
By AFP Guinea confirmed a case of Marburg disease, the World Health Organization said on Monday, the first recorded in West Africa of the lethal virus that’s related to Ebola and, like Covid-19, passed from animal hosts to humans. The virus, which is carried by bats and has a fatality rate of up to 88 percent,…
By CGTN Africa At least four people have turned up as contacts of a man who died in Guinea from the Ebola-like Marburg virus, the World Health Organization said Tuesday. WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said the case, first reported late Monday, amounts to the first in West Africa. The case emerged in Gueckedou, near Guinea’s borders…
By XINHUA Kenya on Monday called on the business community to intensify efforts to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 amid a surge in cases. Betty Maina, cabinet secretary of the Ministry of Industrialization, Trade and Enterprise Development, told journalists in Nairobi, capital of Kenya, that the current fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic could potentially overrun…
By XINHUA Zimbabwe has reopened the Victoria Falls land border with Zambia for fully vaccinated tourists to allow the smooth flow of tourists between the two neighboring countries. The development follows the successful rollout of a vaccination program that has seen more than 60 percent of residents in the border town of Victoria Falls being vaccinated….
By David Ochieng Mbewa South Africa’s men’s U23 football team suffered yet another blow in its preparations for the upcoming Olympic Games after three members tested positive for COVID-19. According to a statement from the South African Football Association (SAFA), an official, video analyst Mario Masha, first tested positive on Thursday evening and subsequently went into…
By Reuters Nearly 23 million children missed out on routine vaccinations last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the highest number in more than a decade, fuelling outbreaks of measles, polio and other preventable diseases, U.N. agencies said on Thursday. Measles, one of the world’s most contagious diseases, can be fatal to children under the age…
By Jerry Omondi Mauritania will send medical equipment to Tunisia to help in the fight against COVID-19. Tunisian President Kais Saied on Wednesday thanked his Mauritanian counterpart for the gesture as his country aims to contain the pandemic. Tunisia is battling a fresh wave of infections and has reported record high daily death tolls since the…
By XINHUA Namibia on Wednesday recorded 150 COVID-19 deaths, the highest daily increase since the virus was reported in the country in March last year. In a statement, Health Minister Kalumbi Shangula said the deaths were recorded in 21 districts. Gobabis district recorded the highest number of deaths with 34 deaths in total, followed by Oshakati…
