By XINHUA Rwandan Health Minister Daniel Ngamije on Tuesday warned that a second nationwide total lockdown would be reimposed if people continue to contravene preventive measures put in place to contain the spread of COVID-19. “We have recorded an unprecedented increase in COVID-19 infections and transmission rates from June 8 up to today. The spike in…
By Grace Kuria Kenya’s total number of COVID-19 infections now near the 180,000 mark. This after the country’s health ministry on Tuesday announced that it has recorded 583 new coronavirus cases, raising the country’s total tally to 179,876 cases. 85 people have recovered from the disease, 60 from Home Based and Isolation Care while 25 are from…
By Grace Kuria South Africa has inoculated more than 2 million people against coronavirus. As at June 19, The Health Ministry reported that 2,137,071 people have received the vaccines so far. SABC reports that of these, more than 479,000 have received the single dose Johnson & Johnson vaccine and are fully vaccinated. The remaining 1.6 million have…
By CGTN Africa The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has said it will suspend travellers from Liberia, Sierra Leone and Namibia from entering the country on national and foreign flights, effective 23:59 p.m. on Monday, June 21, state news agency WAM reported on Saturday, citing a statement by the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA). According to a Reuters report, the GCAA…
By CGTN Africa The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Sunday announced 51 new cases of COVID-19 in the country, bringing the total numbers of infections in the country to 167,206, as of June 19. The agency stated that the 51 new cases were reported from six states, including Lagos (41), Rivers (5), Gombe (3),…
By Grace Kuria Uganda’s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni said production of a more effective Uganda-made COVID-19 vaccine is gearing towards advanced stages. ‘‘We are working on our vaccine. Actually our vaccine will be better than all those because it will cover all variants,’’ the president disclosed in Friday’s televised address. Daily monitor reports that Museveni said the…
By AP A member of Uganda’s Olympic team has tested positive for the coronavirus and was barred entry into Japan, in the first detected infection among arriving athletes for the Tokyo Games opening in five weeks. The eight other members of the team left early Sunday by chartered bus for host town Osaka, central Japan, where…
By CGTN Africa COVID-19 cases in Africa are surging by over 20% week-on-week as the continent’s third wave gains pace and nears the first wave peak of more than 120,000 weekly cases recorded in July 2020, new data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows. According to the data, COVID-19 cases rose to over 116,500 in…
By AFP Guinea is set to announce an end to the Ebola epidemic in the West African state this weekend, the country’s health minister said Thursday. Speaking during a webinar hosted by the World Health Organization, Health Minister Remy Lamah said the viral epidemic will be declared over on Saturday — barring the discovery of new…
By XINHUA Cases of the coronavirus in South Africa continued surging as 13,246 new cases were registered over the past 24 hours, the highest number since January this year, said the National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Wednesday night. NICD, a division of the National Health Laboratory Service, said the percent testing positive increased to…
