Coronavirus

Brigitte Macron has been positive to covid-19 during the Christmas holidays. The French first lady had contracted the virus a few days after Emmanuel Macron, but did not show serious symptoms, reports Europe. And the couple was able to go celebrate Christmas at Fort Brégançon despite the contamination. She was then tested negative …

Burundi is obliged to close. Facing the worrying increase in covid-19 cases in the country, the leaders announced the closure from this morning of the land and sea borders and a mandatory quarantine of seven days for any traveler coming by plane. From this Monday, January 11, 2021, Burundi closes …

So far spared with 23 000 cases and at least 140 dead recorded, Ivory Coast is facing bad numbers in recent days. However, it would be too early to talk about a second wave. The progression of the recorded cases of covid-19 since the end of December continues. According to …

The covid-19 pandemic continues to make victims in the world. In the state of California the disease is killing at least one person every 8 minutes. The virus has already killed more than 11 500 persons , according the RFI. To that, are added overwhelmed hospitals, weak staff, doctors who …

In this month, South Africa will first receive one million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by the Oxford University and AstraZeneca. The 500 000 additional doses will follow next month. The first doses of the Covid-19 vaccine may arrive earlier than expected in South Africa. The information was confirmed on Thursday …

Facing the progression of the covid-19 pandemic, the Senegalese president Macky Sall announced in the beginning of the week, the return of the state of emergency in the regions of Dakar and Thies. A curfew is established since Tuesday, January 5 from 9Pm to 5Am. After a long meeting with …

Faced with the urgency of the situation, the South African government intends to obtain doses in order to vaccinate its population against Covid-19. “We aim for at least a vaccination of 67% of the population, to achieve collective immunity. These vaccines must be available by the end of 2021 ” , indicates …

In the Democratic Republic of Congo, students do not return to school on Tuesday January 5, after the Christmas holidays as it is the case in most of the countries on the continent. The Ministry of Primary, Secondary and Technical Education after a meeting with the team of the coronavirus …

Egypt authorized the use of anti covid-19 vaccine developed by the chinese laboratory Sinopharm. The announcement was done by the Egyptian Minister of Health and Population, Hala Zayed, as reported our colleagues of Jeune Afrique. After therefore a first batch of vaccine comprising 50 000 doses delivered in December, Egypt …

Hard hit by the epidemic in December, Nigeria faced now a new strain of the virus and studies are in progress to clarify the properties of this variant of coronavirus. During analyzes carried out on 200 people by scientists of the African Center of Excellence for Research and Infetcioius Diseases, …