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Health
WHO Says Africa Needs 20 Million Second AstraZeneca Vaccine Doses In Six Weeks
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday said African countries need at least 20 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19…
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Ghana
Ghana Health Service To Issue COVID-19 Vaccination Cards With Holograms
Ghana Health Service (GHS) on Tuesday said the government will issue enhanced COVID-19 vaccination cards to people who get their…
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Algeria
Algeria Government Plans To Reopen Borders In June After Year-Long Closure
Algeria is all set to reopen air and land borders on June 1, but with adherence to strict precautions to…
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Seychelles
WHO Reviewing Seychelles COVID-19 Data After Fully Vaccinated Test Positive
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday said it was reviewing COVID-19 data from Seychelles after more than a third…
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Tunisia
Tunisian Government Orders Partial Lockdown Amid Worst Ever Health Crisis
The Tunisian government on Friday ordered a partial COVID-19 lockdown for one week amid rising coronavirus cases. The lockdown will…
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Egypt
Egypt’s Government Announces New Set Of Anti-COVID 19 Measures For Two Weeks
Egypt’s government on Wednesday announced a slew of new anti-COVID 19 measures amid an increasing number of coronavirus cases in…
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Tanzania
Tanzanian Government Announces New Anti-Coronavirus Measures To Curb New Variants
Tanzanian government on Monday announced a slew of new COVID-19 containment measures that are expected to prevent the importation of…
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Democratic Republic of the Congo
DRC To Return More Than A Million Doses Of Coronavirus Vaccine To UNICEF
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) health authorities will return more than a million doses of coronavirus vaccine to the…
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Kenya
Kenyan Health Ministry Suspends Flights To India Amid Surge In Coronavirus Cases
The Kenyan Health Ministry On Wednesday said it has decided to suspend flights to and from India after midnight on…
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Tanzania
Tanzanian President Hassan Says It’s Not Proper To Ignore COVID-19 Pandemic
Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan on Tuesday said it is not proper to ignore the COVID-19 pandemic, hinting at a…
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Health
WHO Confirms Possibility Of COVID-19 Transmission From Humans To Animals
The World Health Organization’s (WHO) representative to Russia Melita Vujnovic on Monday said the international health body has confirmed the…
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South Africa
South African Govt Planning To Vaccinate 200,000 People A Day Starting May
South African Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said the health authorities are planning to administer coronavirus vaccines to up to 200,000…
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Sudan
Sudan Begins Vaccinating Frontline Healthcare Workers Against Coronavirus
Sudan on Tuesday began vaccinating frontline healthcare workers against coronavirus, after it received its first batch of vaccines last week,…
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Health
WHO Says Africa’s Epidemic Managing Experience Helped In Controlling Coronavirus
The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom on Monday said Africa reacted better to the pandemic not only because…
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Health
WHO Chief Says Global Coronavirus Infection Numbers Rise For First Time In 7 weeks
The World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday said the number of new coronavirus cases globally rose…
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South Africa
South African Health Minister Reports Over 1650 New Coronavirus Cases On Friday
South African Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said the country recorded 1,654 new coronavirus cases on Friday, bringing the total number…
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Nigeria
Nigeria: Health Authorities Conduct Over 14 Million Coronavirus Tests So Far
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Wednesday announced the country’s health authorities have conducted over 1,489,103 COVID-19 tests since…
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Tanzania
Tanzanian President John Magufuli Urges Citizens To Wear Locally Made Face Masks
Tanzanian President John Magufuli has finally acknowledged the presence of COVID-19 in the country after claiming for months that the…
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Health
Africa’s COVID-19 Deaths Cross 100,000 Mark Amid Second Wave Of Virus Infection
Africa’s COVID-19 related deaths crossed 100,000 on Friday as the second wave of infections spreads to several African countries, reported…
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Algeria
Algerian Government Orders Re-opening Of Mosques As Coronavirus Number Drops
The Algerian government on Sunday reopened mosques across the country as part of the moves to ease coronavirus-prevention restrictions following…
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South Africa
South African Health Minister Reports A Decline In Number Of Coronavirus Cases
South African Health Minister Zweli Mkhize on Tuesday reported a decline in the number of coronavirus cases, reported Anadolu Agency.…
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South Africa
South African Government Suspends Use Of AstraZeneca Coronavirus Vaccine
The South African government on Sunday suspended the use of the Oxford/AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine in its immunization program after a…
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South Africa
South African President Relaxes Level 3 Lockdown Regulations As COVID-19 Cases Drop
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday said the government has decided to relax level 3 lockdown regulations following a…
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Health
WHO Expects To Vaccinate At Least 20% Of Africans Against Coronavirus By 2021
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday said it expects at least 20 percent of people of the African continent…
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Health
WHO Expert Says Countries Facing Woes In COVID-19 Vaccine Supply, Distribution
A top World Health Organization (WHO) official on Monday said almost all countries are facing issues with the supply and…
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