Coronavirus

The Ghana Health Service (GHS) announced that the country is experiencing a resurgence of COVID-19, as 62 new cases have been detected, most of them from the Greater Accra region. GHS Director of Public Health, Dr Franklin Asiedu-Bekoe said the cases had been recorded in the past two weeks, adding …

Uganda is experiencing a worrying rise in Covid-19 cases, the country’s Minister of Health, Dr Jane Aceng, said in a tweet on Sunday. The minister did not reveal the latest figures on confirmed cases, but said the country was “well prepared to respond and save lives than before”. She ruled …

A study using a sample of blood donors in South Africa has suggested that nearly everyone in the country has either been infected with Covid or has been vaccinated, or both, the Daily Maverick reports. The South African National Blood Service and the Western Cape Blood Service looked at the …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of the dangerousness of a new variant of the coronavirus, less transmissible but more serious. The new variant is about the Middle East respiratory syndrome also called MERS. MERS, the pathogen of Middle East respiratory syndrome, was spotted in 2012 in Saudi Arabia. …

North Korean President Kim Jong-un imposed a total lockdown following the discovery of the first case of covid-19 in the country on Thursday. This dreaded first case was detected during tests carried out on Sunday, May 8, in the city of Pyongyang, on sick and feverish people. North Korea’s leader …

Uganda’s Health Minister, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng authorized private hospitals to charge 20,000 shillings (€6) to people wishing to be vaccinated against Covid-19 as an overhead for vaccines. While announcing collaboration with private health facilities in Kampala, Dr Aceng said the government is now allowing all private facilities to start …

Health officials and scientists in South Africa said the country may be entering a fifth COVID wave as there is rise in infections over the past 14 days. According to scientists and health officials, the BA.4 and BA.5 Omicron subvariants may be responsible for this increase. Health Minister Joe Phaahla …

Authorities in the Chinese city of Beijing have closed most schools following the detection of new cases of covid-19 which continues to wreak havoc in the country. After Shanghai, Beijing, the Chinese capital, which is on high alert against the “Omicron” variant. Since the beginning of the week, 22 million …

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced the lifting of COVID restrictions, imposed since the beginning of the pandemic. In a televised address, the president said the national state of disaster would end at midnight on Monday. “Masks will still be required indoors for another month,” he said. He said …

Ghanaian President Nana Akufo-Addo on Sunday announced the lifting of the mandatory wearing of wask masks in public citing a steady decline in Covid infections in the country and neighboring countries. Ghana joins dozens of African countries that have eased most Covid containment measures. President Akufo-Addo also scrapped the requirement …