Coronavirus

The US Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) has advised against all travel to Tanzania. The health agency has updated Tanzania’s alert to level four, meaning transmission of coronavirus is “high or rising rapidly”. Forty-one African countries have been listed in level four, the highest category of alert. “Travellers …

In January, Mozambique recorded 210 deaths from Covid-19. According to the health ministry, it is its worst month since the pandemic started. The number is more than half of the 367 deaths recorded from the disease. The southern Africa country also confirmed 20,012 new cases in January, about a half …

Japan is set to extend a state of emergency in Tokyo and other regions for another month on Tuesday, seeking to keep the upper hand over a Covid-19 outbreak even as daily case numbers begin to edge down. Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga is expected to formally announce the extension to …

Rwanda has expressed its displeasure with the United Kingdom after London banned travelers from the east African country, citing the need to stop the spread of mutant strains of Covid-19. The UK’s transport minister announced last Thursday, that his country had added Rwanda, Burundi, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) …

South Africa, the most affected country by the coronavirus pandemic on the African continent, has received its first batch of Oxford-AstraZeneca Covid-19 vaccines. The one million doses will be given to healthcare workers who have been battling the virus in the continent’s worst-hit country but no date has been set …

Algerian authorities have begun discussions to made Russia’s Sputnik V Covid-19 vaccine in the country. “The two parties agreed to start contacts between the relevant bodies with a view to build cooperation in the field of making the Sputnik V vaccine in Algeria,” said a statement from Prime Minister Abdelaziz …

According to a junior British Minister, Britain cannot publish details of the AstraZeneca covid-19 vaccine supply contract because it would jeopardize national security, as the European Union threatened drug companies over supply delays. Scotland will publish covid-19 detailed vaccine supply data next week even though the British government has refused …

After the 30 days lockdown which has started on January 5, Zimbabwean authorities have extended the lockdown by another two weeks, until 15 February in order to curb the spread of the coronavirus pandemic. Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, who is acting health minister, made the announcement on national television: “The president …

According to state-run Herald Newspaper, a Zimbabwean couple has been arrested for an alleged WhatsApp message that claimed President Emmerson Mnangagwa had succumbed to Covid-19. The couple, who are both aged 20, were arrested in the southern border town of Beitbridge, it said. The pair have reportedly appeared before a …

The German government accepted to ban all travel from high-risk countries, including South Africa, the United Kingdom, Portugal and Brazil. The restrictions are due to be signed on Friday and could come into force as early as Saturday, according to Spiegel magazine. Germany’s Interior Minister Horst Seehofer announced this ahead …