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Africa: 450,000 Africans Projected to Contract COVID-19 By May
East African, 5 April 2020
Africa could see up to 450,000 people test positive for the highly infectious Coronavirus (Covid-19) by the second week of May, putting the continent's fragile health systems under… Read more »
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Africa: South Africa Starts Preliminary Work On a Coronavirus Vaccine
News24Wire, 24 March 2020
South Africa has started work on the development of a vaccine for the Covid-19 virus, Higher Education Minister Blade Nzimande has said. Read more »
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Africa: Novel Coronavirus - How Close Are We to Treatment And Vaccine?
allAfrica, 17 March 2020
The new coronavirus, declared a pandemic on March 11 by the World Health Organisation (WHO) because of its global spread, and with more than 170,000 confirmed cases, according to… Read more »
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Africa: Blood Groups, Antibodies Explored in Novel Coronavirus Immunity
The Conversation Africa, 18 March 2020
COVID-19, which first emerged in Wuhan, China in December 2019, is relentlessly sweeping across the world. The scale of the epidemic has caused chaos and led to the World Health… Read more »
COVID-19 - How Close Are We to Quick Tests, Treatment, Vaccine?
Hundreds of cases have been confirmed in Africa, while globally cases of the novel coronavirus have reached hundreds of thousands - here's how far we are in working towards rapid diagnostic testing, a vaccine and other treatment.
Until a vaccine or cure is confirmed, washing your hands is one of the most effective ways of keeping healthy as the novel coronavirus spreads.
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Africa: Human Trial of Investigational COVID-19 Vaccine Begins
NIH, 18 March 2020
A Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating an investigational vaccine designed to protect against coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has begun at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health… Read more »
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Africa: What Can We Learn from the Continent? COVID-19 and Ebola Compared
African Arguments, 17 March 2020
Covid-19 is a flu-like illness (symptoms include fever, cough, and breathing problems) caused by a corona virus (SARS CoV-2). Like Ebola, the virus causing Covid-19 circulates… Read more »
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The Best Handwashing Video You've Seen - So Far...
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- allAfrica.com
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- 18 March 2020
Handwashing in the time of the novel coronavirus... Noah Tau Louw shows us how to clean our hands - for at least 20 seconds - as it's one of the most ... see more »
InFocus
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Researchers at the African Union believe the continent will slip into a recession this year due to a huge fall in global oil prices and the impact the novel coronavirus pandemic ... Read more »
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Researchers have announced in a report the successful genome sequencing of a local sample of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that's given rise to the Covid-19 pandemic. Scientists at the ... Read more »
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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres says the new coronavirus disease "is attacking societies at their core, claiming lives and people's livelihoods". A new ... Read more »
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Fake news surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic has been spreading faster than the virus itself after a video circulated in South Africa of a man urging the public to refuse COVID-19 ... Read more »
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The United Nations secretary-general has warned that the increase in social and economic pressures brought on by the coronavirus pandemic has led to a global increase in violence ... Read more »
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A lead COVID-19 vaccine candidate has been announced - but wealthy countries are facing mounting calls to give more funding to poorer nations to help protect the world's most ... Read more »
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As of January 18, 2022, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 10,373,790 while over 204,912,446 vaccinations have been administered across the continent. ... Read more »
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As the COVID-19 outbreak spreads across the globe, African countries are responding in various ways, from imposing travel bans to closing schools. This was last updated in ... Read more »
