By David Ochieng Mbewa The latest leg of the Wanda Diamond League in the Swedish capital Stockholm saw a host of meeting records broken as African athletes excelled in their preparations for the upcoming Olympic Games in Tokyo. Kenya’s Hyvin Kiyeng secured the women’s 3,000m steeplechase in 9:04.34 as the 2015 world champion shattered the meeting…
By XINHUA At least 136 students in a high school in Ghana have been infected with the COVID-19 Delta variant, the Ghana Health Service (GHS) confirmed on Sunday. During the latest national COVID-19 update, 136 out of 550 samples taken among students in Achimota School came out positive, Patrick Kuma-Aboagye, director general of the GHS, said….
By Reuters Aid agencies have distributed a strawberry-flavoured tablet for children living with HIV in six African countries, the first generic pediatric version of a key anti-retroviral, global health agency UNITAID said on Sunday. UNITAID and Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) funding procured 100,000 packs of the dolutegravir formulation across Nigeria, Malawi, Uganda, Kenya, Zimbabwe and…
By XINHUA Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi inaugurated on Saturday the 3rd of July Naval Base in Gargoub on Egypt’s northwest coast, the Egyptian Presidency said in a statement. Covering an area of 10 million square meters along the Mediterranean, the new base is considered Egypt’s largest naval base. The 3rd of July Naval Base is a…
By XINHUA The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 5,637,941 as of Sunday noon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the 55-member African Union, said the death toll from the pandemic stands at 145,742 while 4,899,495 patients across the continent have…
By XINHUA Ethiopia registered 45 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 276,368 as of Saturday evening, the country’s Ministry of Health said. The ministry said three new deaths and 150 more recoveries were reported on Saturday, bringing the national death toll to 4,330 and total recoveries to 260,949 respectively….
By XINHUA The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) on Saturday announced that it had authorized the use of the CoronaVac COVID-19 vaccine developed by Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac Biotech. The latest vaccine approval was based on the “safety, quality and efficacy data” submitted to the regulator between March 22 and June 22, it said…
By CGTN Africa The World Bank on Wednesday pledged to boost available funding for COVID-19 vaccine purchases and deployment to $20 billion from a previous target of $12 billion, citing a sharp increase in overall financing demand from developing countries. World Bank President David Malpass said the global development bank had already provided more than $4…
By XINHUA The Ministry of Health and Population in Malawi has announced that the country is now experiencing the third wave of COVID-19 following an increasing rate of new infections and deaths recorded over the past seven days. Cumulatively, the country has recorded 35,897 cases including 1,194 deaths, according to a statement released by Minister of…
By Grace Kuria Uganda’s National Drug Authority (NDA) has approved Covidex as a supportive treatment for viral infections including COVID-19 but not as a cure. In a statement, NDA stated that after a record time of 14 days of engagements with the innovators and assessments of the product information, Covidex, has been notified to be sold in…
