As the rest of the world marks 2023 world cancer day celebration, in Abuja, Nigeria a group held an annual 5km walk awareness campaign. Since 2015, Pink Blue has been hosting this project an initiative led by the Union for International Cancer Control. With this year’s theme “closing the care gap”, the group, appeals for…
By Rebecca Trenner, CNN Johannesburg, South AfricaCNN — Car crashes, opportunistic criminals, rotting food, decomposing bodies, bankrupt businesses, and water shortages. Welcome to life under South Africa’s power blackouts. Last week the grim extent of the outages was laid bare when South Africans were advised to bury dead loved ones within four days. In a public statement, the…
AP The first US Cabinet member to visit Somalia since 2015 urged the world’s distracted donors Sunday to give immediate help to a country facing deadly famine, which she calls “the ultimate failure of the international community.” The US ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, heard perhaps the starkest warning yet about the crisis: Excess…
SA News The Department of Health (DOH) says it is in consultation with scientists over a highly transmissible variant of the Covid-19 virus. This after media reports over the weekend said the country had found its first case of the variant. “[The department] has been alerted about this highly transmissible XBB.1.5 variant and is currently…
The health department said it’s not yet able to confirm a case of a highly-transmissible subvariant of Covid-19. The first case was reported in a series of tweets by Covid-19 scientist Prof Tulio de Oliveira. The department has said it is investigating the claim but is yet to receive a patient profile. Claims that South…
By Karabo Rammutla The Department of Health says that a widely shared social media post, purportedly by the Ministry of Health, calling for the return of face masks, is fake. The fake post instructed all members of the public to return to wearing face masks in public places in the wake of an apparent detection…
By CGTN – The first flights under China’s new “no quarantine” rules for international travelers landed at airports in Guangzhou and Shenzhen in southern Guangdong Province early on Sunday morning, the national customs authority said. Officials said 387 passengers were aboard two flights from Toronto and Singapore on the day the country ended its strict COVID-19 restrictions…
Jan 5 (Reuters) – Africa’s top public health body said on Thursday that the Ebola outbreak in Uganda was coming under control, as it had been 39 days since the last confirmed case of the virus had been reported in the country. Officials first confirmed the outbreak in September and said it was the Sudan…
AFP , Monday 2 Jan 2023 Schools in Malawi’s two largest cities are to remain closed until further notice due to a worsening cholera outbreak, the government said on Monday. Students were due back in class after the holidays on Tuesday. But the health ministry said the start of the school term for primary and secondary…
The authorities say the schools will remain closed for at least two weeks By Peter JegwaLilongwe, Malawi The authorities in Malawi have suspended primary and secondary schools opening in two major cities following a cholera outbreak that has so far killed 595 people. Schools in the capital, Lilongwe, and the commercial hub, Blantyre, will remain…
