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Africa: Rising Mortality As Africa Marks One Year of Covid-19
WHO, 11 February 2021
Deaths from COVID-19 in Africa have surged by 40% in the last month, pushing Africa's death toll towards 100 000 since the first reported case on the continent on 14 February 2020.… Read more »
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Kenya: Experts Fear New Covid-19 Variants Spreading Locally
Nation, 11 February 2021
Fears that new, more infectious variants of the coronavirus could be spreading in Kenya have put government officials on edge. Read more »
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South Africa: Economy, Covid-19 are Priorities in 2021 - Ramaphosa
SAnews.gov.za, 11 February 2021
In a year where the economy took a huge knock as the COVID-19 pandemic halted production, President Cyril Ramaphosa says defeating the health crisis and rebuilding the economy are… Read more »
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South Sudan: Senior South Sudan Officials Test Positive for Covid-19
East African, 11 February 2021
Four senior officials working in South Sudan's Office of the President have tested positive for coronavirus. Read more »
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Botswana: Lack of Compliance Leads to Upsurge in Cases
Botswana Daily News, 11 February 2021
Lack of compliance to COVID-19 protocols reportedly led to an upsurge of cases in a short space of time in Kgalagadi District. Read more »
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Africa: Pandemic Adds 'Black Tax' Burden on Young Workers
East African, 11 February 2021
Many young adults find themselves having to juggle limited resources to support themselves and their extended families. The culture, colloquially known as "black tax", is common in… Read more »
Rising Mortality As Africa Marks One Year of Covid-19
Deaths from Covid-19 in Africa have surged by 40% in January 2021, pushing Africa's death toll towards 100,000 since the first reported case on the continent on February 14, 2020. This comes as the continent battles new, more contagious variants and gears up for its largest-ever vaccination drive. This spike in mortality comes as Africa's second wave of cases, which began in October 2020, seemed to have peaked on January 6, 2021. The continent, one year later, faces the spread of new strains of virus. Variant 501Y.V2 (also known as B1.351), first detected in South Africa, and now eight African countries, while the VOC202012/01 variant (also known as B1.1.7) initially detected in the UK, has also been detected in six countries on the continent, according to the World Health Organisation.
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The Ministry of Health has reportedly ordered county governments and port services to improve on the capacity at laboratories for specimen collection, shipment and timely ... Read more »
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South African President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation on February 1, 2021, announcing the easing of some novel coronavirus pandemic lockdown restrictions. Ramaphosa said ... Read more »
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As of August 21, 2022, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 12,126,067 while 373,195,217 vaccinations have been administered across ... Read more »
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The government's plan to procure 18 million doses of Covid-19 vaccine to cater for nine million Ugandans seems to have come at a heavier price than first thought. The costing of ... Read more »
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Tanzania's health ministry is urging citizens to practice hygiene and use traditional medicine to treat Covid-19. In addition, the country's health minister, Dr Dorothy Gwajima, is ... Read more »
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The government, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme has deployed three 'THOR UVC' robots, which are expected to play a crucial role in infection prevention ... Read more »
