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March 20
Africa: Air Pollution Can Increase the Risk of Covid Infection and Severe Disease #AfricaClimateCrisis [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
The early part of the COVID pandemic led to a significant reduction in air pollution in many parts of the world. With lockdowns, travel restrictions and decreased economic… Read more »
Ghana: Minister Urges Residents to Take Covid-19 Vaccines
GhanaToday
The Upper East Regional Minister, Mr Stephen Yakubu, has launched Covid-19 Emergency Response Project (CERP) at Bolgatanga last Friday. Read more »
South Africa: Covid-19 Grant Should Be Increased to at Least R413, Say Civil Society Groups
GroundUp
A new means test and bank verification process has resulted in far fewer people getting the grant Read more »
March 19
Africa: The Limits of Expert Judgment - Lessons From Social Science Forecasting During the Pandemic [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
Imagine being a policymaker at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. You have to decide which actions to recommend, how much risk to tolerate and what sacrifices to ask your… Read more »
March 17
Gambia: Minister Gomez Quizzed On Over D1 Million COVID Fund
The Point
Hon Musa Badjie, member for Tallinding Kunjang Constituency questioned Hon Pierre Gomez, Minister of Higher Education and Research Science about One Million One Hundred and… Read more »
March 16
Africa: Malawi, Rwanda and Zambia Receive Covid-19 Treatments for High-Risk Patients
COVID Treatment Quick Start Consortium
The COVID Treatment Quick Start Consortium announced today that the governments of Zambia, Laos, Malawi and Rwanda have received shipments of PAXLOVID™… Read more »
South Africa: Long Covid - What We Know About How the Condition Affects Mental Health [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
Many people have persistent symptoms after recovering from COVID, a condition termed "long COVID". The UK's Office for National Statistics estimates 1.8 million people in the UK… Read more »
Africa: Cocaine Trafficking Surges Following Covid-19-Related Slowdown
UN News
Routed through new hubs and expanded criminal networks, cocaine trafficking has made a dramatic comeback following an initial slowdown caused by the emergence of COVID-19, the UN… Read more »
Nigeria: Compensate Workers for Fighting Covid - ILO
Vanguard
The International Labour Organisation, ILO, has called on countries across the globe to improve the working conditions and earnings of key workers who were essential during the… Read more »
March 15
Africa: Looting and Decay - How The Pandemic Wrought Real Damage to African Heritage [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
The Covid-19 pandemic will long be remembered for the lockdowns it imposed and the millions of lives it stole, particularly among the elderly. A recent Unesco report shows that it… Read more »
Uganda: Eye-Brows Raised As Musenero Struggles to Provide Covid-19 Accountability
Nile Post
The Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Dr. Monica Musenero struggled to provide accountability documents to Parliament's Public Accounts Committee (Central… Read more »
March 14
Equatorial Guinea: Covid, Bird Flu, Mpox - a Virologist On Why We're Seeing So Many Viruses Emerge [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
From the widespread outbreak of mpox (formerly called monkeypox) in 2022, to the evolving bird flu situation, to recent cases of Marburg virus in Equatorial Guinea, COVID isn't… Read more »
Uganda: Lockdowns Offered Glimpse of Retirement - - and Some Didn't Like It
Global Press Journal
In 2020, as the coronavirus continued to wreak havoc around the world, the monotony of the lockdown distressed many. With nowhere to go, people were desperate for a distraction.… Read more »
Africa: 55 Countries Face a Health Worker Crunch Linked to Covid-19 - WHO
UN News
No less than 55 countries are struggling with serious health worker shortages as they continue to seek better paid opportunities in wealthier nations that have stepped up efforts… Read more »
Gambia: CRR Targets 31,000 People in Round Nine of COVID-19 Vaccination Exercise
The Point
The regional health director of Health Services in the Central River Region (CRR) has disclosed that the turnout for the round nine of the nationwide vaccination exercise was… Read more »
March 13
Africa: At Some Point in 2023 We Will Be Able to Say Covid-19 is Over as a Pandemic - WHO Chief [press release]
WHO
President Santa Ono, Read more »
Africa: What the Research Shows About Risks of Myocarditis From Covid Vaccines Versus Risks of Heart Damage From Covid [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
Soon after the first COVID-19 vaccines appeared in 2021, reports of rare cases of heart inflammation, or myocarditis, began to surface. Read more »
March 12
Nigeria: Nigeria's Annual Trade Volume Rises to Near Pre-Covid Level
This Day
The 169 per cent year-on-year increase in trade surplus recorded by the federal government for 2022 has almost put Nigeria's annual trade volume at the positive threshold of the… Read more »
March 11
Africa: Call for Vaccine Equity So Covid 'Mistakes' Are Not Repeated
DW
More than 130 leaders are urging western countries in particular to do more to ensure vaccines can be distributed globally. Both now, with an end to COVID "within our grasp," and… Read more »
March 10
Africa: Three Years On, The Covid Pandemic May Never End - But The Public Health Impact Is Becoming More Manageable [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
Three years ago, on March 11 2020, World Health Organization (WHO) director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus first formally described COVID-19 as a pandemic. Read more »
March 09
Africa: The COVID Consensus, African Studies and Internationalism [analysis]
African Arguments
Debating Ideas aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing… Read more »
Africa: Suicide Attempts Rose Among Children and Adolescents During the Covid-19 Pandemic, Especially for Girls [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
Will the kids be alright? There was hope that children and adolescents would "bounce back" as the pandemic progressed, but sadly, the data suggest otherwise. Read more »
Ghana: We've Not Misapplied COVID-19 Funds - President
Ghanaian Times
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has absolved his government of any malfeasance in the expenditure of funds raised for the management of the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »
March 08
Zimbabwe: Overcoming Taboos for Women's Positive Sexual Health
MSF
Good sexual and reproductive health is important for the quality of life for all people, yet there are myriad challenges to ensuring this for cisgender and transgender women and… Read more »
Africa: Disputes Over Covid's Origins Reveal an Intelligence Community in Disarray. Here Are 4 Fixes We Need Before the Next Pandemic [analysis]
The Conversation Africa
A recent Wall Street Journal article reported on new, classified intelligence from the US Department of Energy about the origins of COVID. It concluded with "low confidence" that… Read more »
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