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A return to pre-pandemic employment levels is not expected before 2023, according to the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
Eight medical practitioners in Rwanda were arrested over embezzling Covid-19 kits and misuse of vaccines, a judicial source revealed Sunday.
The U.S. Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda on Sunday announced the new shipment of more than one million doses of COVID-19 vaccines as part of Biden-Harris Administration’s global efforts to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Johnson & Johnson vaccine given to South African health care workers is effective against the Covid-19 Omicron variant during a recent study, scientists said on Saturday.
South Africa’s National State of Disaster on Covid-19 has been extended to 15 February this year, Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has announced.
Two hundred patients have tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday at quarantine centers and testing stations in Eritrea’s central, southern, and northern Red Sea regions, bringing the total to 8,755. APA can report.
A prominent South African scientist, Salim Abdool Karim, on Wednesday said future coronavirus variants could be much weaker than the current fast-spreading Omicron mutant – which is less severe than the previous Delta variant.
The European Union has lifted the travel ban imposed on South Africa and other Southern African countries following the onset of the highly transmissible Covid-19 omicron variant last year, Tourism Minister Lindiwe Sisulu confirmed on Wednesday.
Some 203,580 doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccines have been presented by the U.S. Embassy in Mauritius to the Mauritian authorities on Wednesday morning to beef up their campaign against the resurgent coronavirus.
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 10,065,082 as of Sunday evening, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has said.