The Pan-African Parliament (PAP) has praised African countries for aggressively fighting to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus pandemic as the number of confirmed cases continues to rise.
The plaudits come after South Africa and Morocco were praised for...
The African Union said on Wednesday it had secured 270 million doses of anti-Covid vaccine for the continent, in a deal that will benefit countries unable to finance their own immunization campaigns.
Under the deal, the vaccines will be supplied...
Over 1,200 new infections have taken Kenya’s COVID-19 tally past 65,000, the country’s Health Ministry said.
Coronavirus cases in Kenya pass 65,000 tally
The death toll increased by 26 to reach 1,180, according to the latest figures.
“Today, 1,216 people have tested...
The coronavirus death toll is now 45,282 in Africa, an update by the health institution of the African Union showed on Monday.
The total number of cases is now over 1,881,300 across the continent and some 1,588,800 patients have recovered...
South African Health Minister Zweli Mkhize has announced 54 more COVID-19 related deaths and 772 new infections on Monday night, which take the death toll in South Africa to over 19 465.
This makes South Africa’s COVID-19 death toll to...
Geneva – The World Health Organization warned Monday that there might never be a “silver bullet” for the new coronavirus, despite the rush to discover effective vaccines.
The WHO urged governments and citizens to focus on doing the known basics, such...
JOHANNESBURG – African Union chairperson Cyril Ramaphosa and his counterpart at the Commission of AU, Moissa Faki Mahamat, have expressed dismay at the alleged racial stigma directed at Africans in China over the Covid-19 pandemic.
In a statement Sunday, Mr...
Today, the world is faced with another global menace similar to the Spanish Flu of 1918 which killed almost 50 million people the world over between 1918 and 1919. This is the CoronaVirus or Covid-19 which originated in the...
JOHANNESBURG – As the world battles with covid-19 pandemic, Africans living in China’s Guangzhou have become targets for discrimination and racist attacks after they were forcibly evicted from hotels and barred from public places.
The racist attacks have stirred outrage...
The balance sheet of people with coronavirus in Algeria has experienced a new peak. 16 members of the same family in the Blida region, near Algiers, were infected with the coronavirus following contacts with Algerian nationals living in France,...
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