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Reuters – Rescue workers pulled a 10th body from the rubble of a collapsed Florida condominium on Monday, as officials vowed to keep searching for any possible survivors five days…
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South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
The second-highest daily case total over the span of the coronavirus pandemic was reported Friday in Maryland, according state health officials.
Fatalities from COVID-19 have not increased in the past 24 hours, as the Ministry of Health and Wellness recorded no deaths directly linked to the infectious disease.\tThis means the death toll from the disease remains at 358. \tOne new death is...
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When President Ramaphosa announced in May that the country would be moving to alert level 3 from 1 June, he said government would give consideration to re-opening other sectors of the economy, if the necessary safety precautions were put in place and maintained.
\"Therefore, following discussions with industry representatives on stringent prevention protocols, and after advice from scientists and consultation with Premiers, Cabinet has decided to ease restrictions on certain other economic activities,\" the President said on Wednesday.
President Ramaphosa said many other countries are in the same boat during this global pandemic and are resolving similar dilemmas.
\"We used the time during the lockdown to prepare and enhance our health system and put in place public health measures to minimise infections,\" the President said.
The President said as the country gradually opens up, resuming more activities, the risk of infection inevitably increases.
During the Covid-19 daily briefing on Sunday, Kenya's Health CS Mutahi Kagwe said the new cases comprise 125 males and 42 females.
The national government will intervene directly in the case of Busia County because of the increased number of truck drivers turning positive.
“The high numbers come from extremely targeted testing, if you look at Busia and other border counties, there is a huge number of truck drivers,” he said.
“Opening of bars and sale of alcohol remain banned, those who the flout rules will have licences revoked,” Mr Kagwe said.
The CS thanked those in Nyumba Kumi, especially those in rural areas, who report people coming to their areas from virus epicentres.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- 1,064 more infections with COVID-19 were reported on February 5, until 11 p.m. out of a total of 5,232 tests carried out, the Health Ministry stated Saturday evening in its daily report.
South Sudan’s coronavirus tally has risen to 1,604 after the National Taskforce on Covid-19 reported 67 new cases on Sunday.
The country has also reported four more fatalities, bringing the death toll to 19; while 15 people have recovered from the coronavirus.
Speaking to the press on Sunday, taskforce spokesman Makur Matur Koriom added that the country currently has “1,570 active cases.”
South Sudan has seen a rapid increase in the number of the positive cases since the outbreak was first reported in the country in April.
Meanwhile, South Sudan's Ministry of Health has suspended the issuing of Covid-19 health certificate to individuals who test negative, after discovering that there was an influx of fake certificates.
This was after its counterpart, the Bono East Region, recorded its first case this week, according to the Director of Public Health at the Ghana Health Service, Dr Badu Sarkodie.
At yesterday's COVID-19 briefing in Accra, he said details would be made public in the ensuing days because information about the new case was received moments before the briefing.
He said the national tally went up after 186 new cases were recorded in 31 districts in four regions; Greater Accra had 140, Central-23, Ashanti -14 and Eastern, nine.
Greater Accra, he said, continues to have the highest number of cases of 5,148 Ashanti - 1,099; Central- 360, Western Region - 344, Eastern- 117, Western North Region - 62 and Volta-59.
According to the director of public health, the Northern Region had recorded 36 cases, Oti - 26, Upper East Region-26, Upper West- 22North East- 2; Savannah- and Bono one each.
Africa’s last country to record a case was Lesotho on March 13.
Details: Most impacted countries per region
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\t\tNorth Africa = Egypt: 17,967 cases, 4,900 recoveries, 783 deaths
\t\tCentral Africa = Cameroon: 4,890 cases, 1,865 recoveries, 165 deaths
\t\tWest Africa = Nigeria: 8,068 cases, 2,311 recoveries, 233 deaths
\t\tEast Africa = Sudan: 3,974 cases, 503 recoveries, 170 deaths
\t\tSouthern Africa = South Africa: 23,615 cases, 11,917 recoveries, 481 deaths
Major African stats: May 26 at 6:00 GMT:
\t\tConfirmed cases = 115,892
\t\tNumber of deaths = 3,479
\t\tRecoveries = 46,553
\t\tActive cases = 65,860
\tThe basic records are referenced from the John Hopkins hospital LIVE portal, we also corroborate figures with African Union’s Africa Centers for Disease Control, Africa CDC whiles prioritizing tallies from trusted national sources.
The classifications are based on where the countries are located especially in the case of countries that belong to two different blocs.
Experts are currently advocating mass testing as cases of local transmission grow in a number of countries.
Most countries are lifting lockdowns, but curfews and ban on gatherings largely remain in place to combat spread and improve containment of confirmed cases.
Lafarge Africa Plc has assured shareholders of improved performance and higher returns on their investments having significantly strengthened its balance sheet.
Balogun said , \"having overseen the progress in our transformation plan, the clean-up of our balance sheet, its return to robust profitability, streamlining of our operations, the renewal of our Board and the smooth chief executive officer (CEO) and chief financing officer (CFO) succession plan, it is with a deep sense of gratitude to God, that I feel fulfilled, in retiring as chairman, knowing that the board and our company is in a very good shape.\"
While thanking the shareholders for their support over the years, Balogun said the N1 dividend pay-out was a worthy return on their investments.
On his part, CEO of Lafarge Africa, Khaled El Dokani, commended the shareholders for their continued confidence in the company.
Sunny Nwosu of Independent Shareholders Association of Nigeria hailed Balogun for putting the company on the path to profitability as well as the fulfilment of the pledge to pay dividend to all shareholders.
[MAP] Rabat -- Morocco has recorded 1,899 new cases of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) over the past 24 hours while 2,531 Covid-19 patients have recovered in the same period, the Ministry of Health said on Sunday.
Public university lecturers and other workers are headed for a clash with their employers over pay cuts.
Egerton and Kisii universities have announced salary reductions of 30-40 per cent on the grounds that they have not received money from the National Treasury.
University Academic Staff Union (Uasu) Secretary-General Constantine Wasonga and Chairman Muga K’Olale said the organisation would not accept pay cuts.
“The university management board resolved that … staff in grade One to Four receive full net salary while those in grades Five to 19 will get 60 per cent of their net pay and the balance will be settled as soon as funds are available,” Prof Mwonya said.
“Before the execution of the 40 per cent pay cuts, university administrators should give a list of employees hired by the government and those recruited locally.
Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has highlighted that cases are currently increasing in the Eastern Cape, Western Cape and Northern Cape - but this is not necessarily the start of a second wave of Covid-19.
Three attacks by Islamic extremists, including an assault on Monguno, a military garrison town, have killed more than 38 people in Nigeria’s notheastern Borno state.
The extremists from the Islamic State West Africa Province on Saturday attacked Monguno, where there are an estimated 150,000 displaced civilians, a United Nations office and a Nigerian military base.
The same group of jihadists was then believed to have carried out an attack on the strategic garrison town of Monguno several hours later.
Monguno — home to a key army base and over 150,000 people displaced by the region’s decade-long insurgency — has been repeatedly targeted by jihadists.
The Nigerian military wrote on Twitter Sunday that the army and air force had “successfully repelled” the attack on Monguno and killed 20 jihadists.
A Cuban medical brigade arrived in Guinea-Bissau to assist in the fight against COVID-19.
The group of 21 health workers included 11 doctors and 10 nurses are also expected in Guinea Conakry, where the south American country already fought Ebola between 2014 and 2016, and with which Cuba has several cooperation agreements.
The Cuban doctors’ trip is part of government’s strategy to combat the new coronavirus pandemic in Guinea-Bissau, which recorded over 1,600 confirmed cases since March, with death toll at 22 as of June 29.
For this reason we should not be surprised that the Republic of Cuba is sending a medical team to help us in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
Almost 3,000 Cubans medics have since the outbreak of the pandemic been deployed to about 28 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
A hundred and twenty more people have tested positive for the coronavirus in Kenya, raising the country’s total number of confirmed cases since March 13 to 6,190.
The Ministry of Health announced this on Monday, saying it had tested 2,221 samples.
Chief Administrative Secretary (CAS) Rashid Aman said all but five of the new patients are Kenyans and that Nairobi, the capital city, was in the lead with 67 of the cases.
Dr Aman also announced the recovery of 42 more patients, raising the total number of recoveries to 2,013.
Dr Aman added that local scientists researching on the disease are looking into local characterisation, interventions implemented and their levels of success.
TNM Super League defending champions Nyasa Big Bullets expatriate head coach Callisto Pasuwa says he is very impressed with how his players are responding to the training fitness programmes which they have been following since government through Football Association of Malawi (FAM) suspended the gathering of more than 100 people due to coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
During the function NBB Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Escort Chinula denied reports that the team is trying hard to block the transfer rumour of their wonder boy winger Peter Banda to go and play for South African National First Division (NFD) side TN Sporting which has shown interest to sign the player.
\"That issue is being handled by our management and disciplinary action will be taken on the player.
All our players had to know that they signed contracts with the team and if the player sign a contract he is under the team's mandate and he has to follow the rules and regulations so players can not do what he wants,\" explained Chinula.
On the issue of players denying a 50% pay cut during the coronavirus period Chinula said, \"At first the issue was being handled as an in-house issue but unfortunately it went on social media before it was finalised.
South Africa on Saturday reported more than 10,000 new coronavirus infections, the highest daily jump on record for the country as it hurtles towards an anticipated spike.
Daily tallies released by the health ministry showed 10,853 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, taking the cumulative tally since March when the virus first arrived in the country to 187,977.
The death toll stands at 3,026 after 74 new fatalities were recorded.
Health authorities have been expecting a surge in cases after the gradual loosening of a strict lockdown that was imposed on March 27.
With the nation’s economy projected to shrink more than seven percent in 2020 as a result of the coronavirus pandemic — the worst slump in 90 years — the government is battling to strike a balance between saving lives and the economy.
“What we have been seeking to do is to balance… saving lives of our people and also preserving liveloods, and it’s a delicate balance,” President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Friday.
Africa’s most economically developed country now has the highest number of coronavirus cases on the continent.
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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 figures.
In an address at the beginning of May to the Somali COVID-19 Task Force, Mogadishu Mayor Omar Mohamud Mohamed said that “the highest deaths we recorded in a single day was 49 people and the lowest was 22, and this is just between the 19th of April and the beginning of May.”
Given the higher-than-usual death rates for Mogadishu, he said that he calculates that the death toll among COVID-19 infected patients in the capital could be “almost 500 people”.
According to Johns Hopkins University figures, Somalia has 1,219 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 52 deaths.
There also just aren’t a lot of hospitals, even in Mogadishu, to take care of COVID-19 patients.
CITÉ SOLEIL, Haiti (AFP) — On paper, Haiti so far has everything it needs to battle the novel coronavirus crisis — unoccupied hospital beds, medical staff, and supplies.
Many of our citizens are experiencing respiratory symptoms and other tell-tale signs,” said Erneau Mondesir, a doctor who works in impoverished Cité Soleil.
Mondesir works at a hospital in Cité Soleil — located just outside the capital — opened by Doctors without Borders (MSF).
“Today, one thing is clear: There are many people who stayed at home too long and then came to the hospital,” explained Mondesir, the medical director for the MSF project.
“It usually takes a week or two from the time that symptoms first appear for patients to show up at the hospital,” he noted.
Meanwhile, in South Africa the death is reported of a two-day-old baby after being born prematurely to a coronavirus positive mother.
The case becomes the country’s first neonatal coronavirus death since the pandemic hit the Rainbow Nation.
Explaining the circumstances leading to the baby’s death, health minister Zweli Mkhize said the premature baby’s condition was critical including lung problems and after birth.
This was a two-day-old baby that was born prematurely and therefore had lung difficulties, which required ventilation support immediately after birth,” the BBC quoted Mkhize at a press briefing.
“The mother had tested positive for Covid-19 and the child subsequently tested positive for Covid-19 as well.
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The death toll from tribal violence between Arabs and non-Arabs in Sudan's West Darfur province climbed to at least 83, including women and children, a doctor's union and aid worker said, as sporadic violence continued Sunday. The ruling sovereign council met Sunday and said security forces would be deployed to the area. The deadly clashes grew out of a fistfight Friday between two people in a camp for displaced people in Genena, the provincial capital. An Arab man was stabbed to death and his family, from the Arab Rizeigat tribe, attacked the […]
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