Kenya: Covid-19 - Kagwe Calls Special Meeting as Kenya Cases Hit 70,245

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Delay in delivery of PPE, so KZN asks school staff to return on Thursday

The return of staff to schools in KwaZulu-Natal has been delayed until later in the week as the education department works to distribute personal protective equipment (PPE) to all

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Magufuli sacks deputy health minister

Tanzania’s President John Pombe Magufuli has appointed Dr Godwin Mollel as the new deputy Health minister after sacking Dr Faustine Ndugulile from the

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Nigeria: Amidst Lockdown Ease, Nigeria's Weekly COVID-19 Cases Reduce, Recoveries Double

As Nigerians continue to experience the nationwide ease in lockdown announced by President Muhammadu Buhari, the country recorded a 16 per cent drop in coronavirus cases last week compared to the previous week, an analysis of data from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control

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Kenya: Counties Ramping Up Efforts to Contain Spread of Coronavirus

A month ago, President Kenyatta, while delivering an address on the virus, said the county governments were well placed to lead the fight against the pandemic given that they have "continued to show the power to

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South Africa: COVID-19 Pandemic Holds Lessons for South Africa's Universal Health Care Plans

This dream of a single national health system could be realised if South Africa is able to articulate a common vision for all its

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Zimbabwe: Govt to Protect Teachers, Learners From COVID-19 As Schools Reopen - Minister

The government has put in place measures to protect teachers and learners from Covid-19 when schools

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Tunisia: COVID-19 - Mission of Mobile Military Laboratory Ends in Douz

Tunis/Tunisia — The mobile microbiological laboratory under the Directorate General of Military Health in Douz, from May 2 to 16, 2020, conducted a total of 1,161 tests for Covid-19 in the Kebili governorate before leaving the region on

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Rwanda: Make Public Servants' Salaries Priority, MPs Tells Government

They made the call on Friday, May 29 during a budget hearing session by the Parliamentary Standing Committee on National Budget and Patrimony in which the Ministry of Health and its affiliated agencies where defending the budgetary allocation to the health sector during the upcoming financial

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Joe Biden’s Plan for Empowering Black America

In a news release, the campaign noted that Biden “knows we need a comprehensive agenda for African Americans with an ambition that matches the scale of the challenge and with a recognition that race-neutral policies are not a sufficient response to race-based

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Covid-19: Eritrea flattens curve

"Indeed, it is vital that every citizen continue to fully adhere to, and diligently implement, the government of Eritrea guidelines in force until the ongoing task of detailed and comprehensive assessment to gauge the spread of the pandemic in the entire country with full certainty is

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Africa's top COVID-19 technocrats: Africa CDC's John Nkengasong

This article zooms in on technocrats leading Africa’s response at different levels be it at the health, diplomatic, social or economic

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Nigeria: Clearing Backlog of Surgeries Will Take 11 Months After COVID-19 - Report

The CovidSurg Collaborative has projected that, based on a 12-week period of peak disruption to hospital services due to COVID-19, it will take 11 months to clear the backlog of surgeries that have been

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Kenya records 147 new Covid-19 cases

Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said in a briefing that 13 coronavirus patients left hospitals in the past 24 hours, taking the number of recoveries in the country to 421. All the 147 patients who tested positive are Kenyans and the youngest is one-year-old, Mr Kagwe said.

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Zambia's Health minister tests positive for Covid-19

Zambia’s Health Minister Chitalu Chilufya has tested positive for Covid-19 as the country’s cases surpassed the 1,000

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Kenya: Baringo's Readiness to Fight COVID-19 Put Under Scrutiny

As the pandemic enters the third month and the virus spreads to 22 counties, Baringo has only two isolation units -- at Kaptimbor Dispensary and Eldama Ravine Hospital -- with a paltry 17

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South Sudan coronavirus: prez writes to, prays for VP, infected comrades

May 18 : South Sudan VP, Defense Minister infected

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State to expand Covid-19 testing process - VIDEO

Health Cabinet Secretary (CS) Mutahi Kagwe Monday appealed for equitable access to Covid-19 tools as the government moves to set up laboratories at border

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Eritrea officially virus-free with 100% recoveries, zero deaths

Total confirmed cases = 39

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Mayor Duggan Appoints Former Chief Justice Conrad Mallett as Deputy Mayor

Mayor Mike Duggan announced the appointment of Conrad Mallett, as Deputy

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Kenya: Porous Borders Stifle Mandera's Efforts to Curb COVID-19

With the porous Somalia border to the east and Ethiopia to the north, Mandera County is struggling to contain the spread of

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Nigeria: COVID-19 - With Fewer Tests, Nigeria Ties With Ghana, Algeria in Death Burden

With a total of 221 COVID-19 deaths, Nigeria, with estimated population of 205.5 million recorded a total of 7,526 confirmed cases which is equivalent to one death per million population according to data from the Johns Hopkins University of Medicine, JHU, released on May

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Malawi: Nobody Will Stop Malawi Fresh Election, Even COVID-19 Can't - Chilima

The country's estranged Vice-President Saulos Chilima --who is also running mate to Tonse Alliance presidential torchbearer Lazarus Chakwera -- has said the Court sanctioned fresh presidential election will be held even if government deliberately spreads the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic what he

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Somalia: Puntland President Unveils New Cabinet

AllAfrica publishes around 800 reports a day from more than 140 news organizations and over 500 other institutions and individuals, representing a diversity of positions on every

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Africa: Together, African Countries Have Enough to Fight COVID-19

Africa can mount a stronger COVID-19 response strategy by using regional trade blocs to coordinate, consolidate, and connect resources across the

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'My Biggest Inspiration': 13-Year-Old Rising Star Aria Brooks Credits Marsai Martin, Other Young Black Actresses for Allowing Her to Dream Big

Rising star Aria Brooks is the newest member of Nickelodeon’s “All That” reboot cast, but don’t box her in as only an

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Botswana coronavirus: capital Gaborone declared high-risk area, 'quarantined'

A statement issued by Dr. Kereng Masupu, coordinator of the presidential task force on COVID-19 read: “Following the confirmed COVID-19 case of a truck driver who came into Gaborone through the Tiokweng border on Sunday 09 May

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Uganda: COVID-19 - Who Questions Uganda On Case Deductions

The World Health Organisation (WHO) has questioned the modality Uganda is using to deduct numbers of Covid-19 positive foreign cases, especially of trans-border cargo truck

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Ghana coronavirus: 5,735 cases, prez fact-checked on testing ‘record’

May 17: 5,735 cases, prez fact-checked on testing

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Somali mayor casts doubts on virus deaths

The Mayor of Somalia’s capital has warned of hundreds of deaths that he suspects have been caused by the new coronavirus, suggesting that actual death toll may be 10 times higher than official

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