By XINHUA About 202 COVID-19 patients in Zambia’s health facilities are on oxygen therapy with 14 of them in critical condition, a government official said on Saturday. Minister of Health Jonas Chanda said 312 patients were currently in admission in various health facilities in all the country’s 10 provinces. Zambia on Saturday announced 1,796 new cases…
By AP Dr. Dre was back at home Saturday after being treated at a Los Angeles hospital for a reported brain aneurysm. Peter Paterno, an attorney for the music mogul, said Dre was home but offered no other details in an email exchange Saturday. The rapper and producer reportedly was released Friday from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center….
By AFP Egypt announced Saturday the discovery of a new trove of treasures at the Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo, including an ancient funerary temple. The tourism and antiquities ministry said the “major discoveries” made by a team of archaeologists headed by famed Egyptologist Zahi Hawass also included more than 50 sarcophagi. The wooden sarcophagi, which…
By Christine Maema Kenya’s health ministry on Saturday reported 223 new COVID-19 infections, taking the country’s total caseload to 99,082. Minister of health Mutahi Kagwe said the latest figures were recorded after 7,748 samples were tested in the last 24 hours. Kagwe also said that two more patients had succumbed to the virus raising the death toll…
By AFP Nigerian authorities have warned against the circulation of fake coronavirus vaccines in the country, where 10 million real doses of the shots are expected in March. “There are reports of fake vaccines in Nigeria,” the Director-General of Nigeria’s National Agency for Food Drug and Administration Control (NAFDAC), Mojisola Adeyeye said during a virtual press conference. “NAFDAC…
By XINHUA As Zambia prepares to reopen schools next week, a debate has emerged whether the schools should be reopened or not following a rise in COVID-19 cases. Zambia has witnessed a surge in COVID-19 cases during the second wave of the pandemic, with health authorities warning that huge gatherings are fueling the surge. Minister of…
By Jerry Omondi Kenya’s COVID-19 infections rose to 98,555 on Wednesday after the ministry of health announced 123 new cases confirmed over the past 24 hours. The figures were announced by the Minister of Health, Mutahi Kagwe, who noted that the latest new infections recorded were from 4,948 samples tested. He also said four patients had…
By XINHUA The United Nations will partner with Kenya to study the East Africa nation’s rising water levels in lakes, a UN official said on Wednesday. Walid Badawi, United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) resident representative in Kenya, said in Nairobi that Lakes Baringo, Naivasha and parts of Lake Victoria have in recent times experienced a dangerous…
By Jerry Omondi The number of global COVID-19-related deaths is nearing the 2 million mark as the virus continues to devastate countries all around the world. The latest figures by the Johns Hopkins University show that the number of virus-related fatalities reached 1,968,343 from a pool of 91,838,572 infections by 17GMT. The United States remains the…
By CGTN Africa Zimbabwe is developing a draft COVID-19 vaccination framework for the roll-out of the vaccine, this is according to Acting Information Minister Jefferson Muswere Zimbabwe has announced that it could receive its first batch of the COVID-19 vaccine next month, with the government now finalizing its national deployment plan and the training of health…
