Browsing: Coronavirus
The South African government will end the National State of Disaster soon as the country entered a new phase in its management of the coronavirus pandemic, President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced.
“The world became confused when the pandemic came, and we as refugees were also confused,” says Laban Chang Ndoh, one of over 72,000 Cameroonian refugees living in Nigeria after fleeing conflict between secessionist forces and the army since 2017.
Nearly 5,000 school children in two informal settlements in the Kenyan capital are being protected against COVID-19 thanks to an UN-Habitat initiative to expand mask and recycling bins in those often-overlooked areas.
A fifth wave of Covid-19 wave is likely to hit South Africa in winter or much earlier — depending on the variants of concern, Health Minister Dr Joe Phaahla announced over the weekend.
Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) said Thursday it will scale up vaccination against COVID-19 across the country using a new mobile clinic.
South Africa has administered more than 30 million coronavirus vaccine doses since the vaccination programme started in February 2021, the health ministry announced on Thursday.
South Africa, which has been under Level 1 lockdown of the coronavirus regulations, has approved the easing of some measures with immediate effect following its exit from the fourth wave of the pandemic nationwide, cabinet has announced.
The Eswatini government has added the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to the list of vaccines to be taken as a booster dose, the Ministry of Health said on Monday.
Rwandan authorities on Thursday eased the country’s COVID-19-related curfew 00:00-04:00 instead of 22:00-04:00.
South Africa’s ruling African National Congress party is considering requesting government to extend its Covid-19 economic aid to the country’s poorest beyond March this year, party leader Cyril Ramaphosa announced on Monday.