The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa stood at 1,293,048 on Monday as the continent continues to see a rise in infections. Figures from the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention showed that the continent had also reported 31,082 deaths. Some countries on the continent have seen a recent decline in new infections…
Kenya’s Peres Jepchirchir smashed the world record for the half marathon in women-only races on Saturday, completing a 21.1-kilometer course in Prague in one hour 05.34 minutes. The 26-year-old shattered the previous record of 1:06:11, set by Netsanet Gudeta of Ethiopia in the women-only event at the World Half Marathon Championships in 2018. The overall…
Accra, Ghana & Mumbai, Maharashtra, India: Merck Foundation CEO, Rasha Kelej, featured in the list of 100 Most Influential African Women 2020, by Avance Media as part of “Be a Girl” Initiative for her efforts to build health care capacity in Africa and to empower girls in education to help them reach their potential and…
Kenya recorded 212 new COVID-19 cases on Thursday from 3,937 samples tested in the past 24 hours, Health CAS Rashid Aman announced. Dr Aman also said that another 195 patients had recovered from the disease during the same period, raising the total number of recoveries to 20,644.The death toll in the country stands at 585…
Former Mali President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita is receiving treatment at a private medical clinic in the capital, Bamako. Media reports say Keita was admitted to the Pasteur Clinic late Tuesday, 10 days after he was detained during a military coup by members of the National Committee for the Salvation of the People, who are now…
Four more patients have succumbed to the coronavirus in Kenya raising the country’s COVID-19 death toll to 581. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Ministry of Health also announced that 178 more people have tested positive, from a sample size of 3,474, bringing to 34, 493 the number of confirmed positive cases. “From the…
Namibia’s health care workers constitute 4.2 percent of the total confirmed COVID-19 cases recorded since the outbreak, an official said Wednesday. Namibia’s Health Minister Kalumbi Shangula in a daily update said Namibia has recorded a total number of 333 health workers who have been infected with COVID-19. “We noticed that the number of health workers…
South Africa’s power crisis worsened on Wednesday as electricity utility Eskom escalated the level of load shedding from level two to level four. This was the highest level of load shedding that has been implemented this year. Stage-two load shedding allows up to 2,000 MW to be shed, while stage four calls for 4,000 MW…
The number of elephants dying in western Zimbabwe from a suspected bacterial infection, possibly from eating poisonous plants, has risen to 22, and “more deaths are expected,” a spokesman for the country’s parks agency said Wednesday. Most of the elephants dying in the Pandamasue Forest, located between the vast Hwange National Park and Victoria Falls,…
The West African nation of Togo has eliminated human African trypanosomiasis or “sleeping sickness” as a public health problem, becoming the first in the continent to achieve the milestone, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) has said. “Togo is a pathfinder in eliminating sleeping sickness, a disease which has threatened millions of Africans,” Dr. Matshidiso…
