By CGTN Africa The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday asked six African countries to be alert for possible Ebola infections, as Guinea reported new cases and the Democratic Republic of Congo said its new infections were a resurgence of a previous outbreak. “We have already alerted the six countries around, including of course Sierra Leone…
By XINHUA COVID-19’s case fatality rate in Botswana has increased to one percent since January from 0.3 percent last year, an official said Monday. Mosepele Mosepele, the deputy coordinator of Botswana’s COVID-19 Task Force Team, said the number of confirmed deaths alienated by the number of confirmed cases clearly shows a significant growth in ratio. In…
By AFP The United States on Tuesday warned that, despite the COVID-19 pandemic, the world “cannot afford to turn the other way” after cases of Ebola were confirmed in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Five people have died of the Ebola virus in Guinea, the first outbreak in West Africa since a 2013-2016 epidemic…
By CGTN Africa South Africa on Tuesday said that it would offer its doses of Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID vaccine to the African Union (AU) after they were found to have little impact on mild infections caused by a variant of the virus first identified in the country last year. “The doses we purchased have been offered to the…
By XINHUA Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Friday expressed gratitude to China for its offer of COVID-19 vaccines. In an interview with Chinese media, President Mnangagwa said the donation is a testament to the long-standing relationship between the people of Zimbabwe and China. He said the Zimbabwean government and the ruling party ZANU-PF are extremely grateful…
By AP Guinea has officially declared it has an Ebola epidemic after at least three people have died and four others have been infected in the West African nation. Neighboring Sierra Leone and Liberia have put their citizens on high alert as the three West African nations battled the world’s deadliest Ebola outbreak from 2014 to…
By XINHUA The government of Sierra Leone on Sunday activated its Health Emergency Response System to level two following seven confirmed Ebola cases in neighboring Guinea. The country’s Health Ministry said in a statement that it has all the structures in place that were established during the 2014/15 Ebola response. “We will build on our expertise…
By David Ochieng Mbewa Zimbabwe on Monday received its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines from China as the southern African nation received a boost in its response to the coronavirus pandemic. A plane carrying about 200,000 doses of Sinopharm vaccine donated by the Chinese government touched down at the Robert Gabriel Mugabe Airport in the capital…
By AFP West Africa faced its first known Ebola resurgence since the end of a devastating outbreak in 2016 on Sunday, with Guinea responding to what its health chief called an “epidemic” after seven cases were confirmed. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic stretching health resources across the world, Guinea and the World Health Organization (WHO) say they…
By CGTN Africa Rwanda has started vaccinating high-risk groups against COVID-19 nationwide, notably frontline healthcare staff, with limited vaccine doses acquired through international cooperation, said the Health Ministry on Sunday. It is the initial phase of COVID-19 immunization in Rwanda and will be followed by a wider roll-out later this month with supplies expected from COVAX…
