By XINHUA Zambia has recorded 3,028 new COVID-19 cases and 53 deaths in the last 24 hours, its health ministry said on Tuesday. The new cases were picked from 10,882 tests done during the period, representing a 28 percent positivity rate as the effect of the third wave gains momentum. This brings the cumulative cases to…
By CGTN Africa Beaches in South Africa’s east coast will remain open as the winter school holidays approach despite an increase in COVID-19 infections in the country. According to local publication News24, Premier Sihle Zikalala, during a briefing on Sunday, expressed concern over the upcoming holiday season, but maintained that the East Coast would welcome all holidaymakers,…
By Halligan Agade Effective and binding action is urgently required to protect the millions of children, adolescents and expectant mothers globally whose health is jeopardized by the informal processing of discarded electrical or electronic devices according to a new ground-breaking report from the World Health Organization: Children and Digital Dumpsites. ”With mounting volumes of production and disposal,…
By XINHUA Hosts Cameroon on Tuesday crushed Nigeria 44-14 in the quarterfinals of the African Women’s Handball Cup of Nations, becoming the fourth and last team to qualify for the World Cup this December in Spain. The other three are Tunisia, Angola, and the Republic of Congo. Earlier, the Congolese, who last made the podium in…
By Halligan Agade Rising COVID-19 cases in Africa are “especially concerning” because the region has the least amount of access to vaccines, diagnostics and oxygen, said World Health Organization Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Together with the spread of more transmissible variants this increases the continent’s mortality rate among critically ill COVID-19 patients, he told reporters in…
By Halligan Agade Overpopulation of elephants and other surges in wildlife numbers is increasing the chances of human-animal contact and raises the chances that more people will be killed or injured by the animals, warns the Zimbabwe Parks and Wildlife Management Authority (Zimparks). Zimparks spokesperson Mr Tinashe Farawo recently said due to overpopulation of the elephants,…
By Reuters More than 1,000 fortune seekers on Monday flocked to the village of KwaHlathi in South Africa’s KwaZulu-Natal province in search of what they believed to be diamonds after the discovery of unidentified stones in the area. The people traveled from across South Africa to join villagers who have been digging since Saturday, after a…
By Grace Kuria The World Health Organization has said that the number of new COVID-19 cases reported has declined for seven weeks in a row, in what WHO calls “the longest sequence of weekly declines during the pandemic so far.” WHO Director General Dr. Tedros Adhanom however said, while weekly cases are at their lowest since…
By AP South Africa’s COVID-19 vaccine rollout has been hit by further delays as it will have to discard at least 2 million Johnson & Johnson vaccines produced in the country. The vaccines were found by the U.S Food and Drug Administration to be unsuitable for use due to possible contamination of their ingredients at a…
By Grace Kuria Novavax has on Monday announced that its COVID-19 vaccine is more than 90% effective against COVID-19. A statement issued by Novavax showed that, NVX-CoV2373, (Novavax’s recombinant nanoparticle protein-based COVID-19 vaccine), demonstrated 100% protection against moderate and severe disease, 90.4% efficacy overall. The results were met through a study which enrolled 29,960 participants across…
