The Ghana Health Service (GHS) has denied claims that the country recorded the first case of monkeypox in its western region, following early reports suggesting it had. “Reports circulating on social media about a possible outbreak in the country are false,” the director of public health at the Ghana Health …
Read More »WHO warns of the dangerousness of a new variant of covid-19
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. …
Read More »DR Congo: authorities confirm third Ebola case in northwest
Health authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo have confirmed a third case of Ebola in the northwestern city of Mbandaka, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursday. It is a 48-year-old man who is a high-risk contact of the first patient, who died on April 21, Reuters agency …
Read More »DR Congo: Ebola virus continues to wreak havoc
The World Health Organization (WHO) says it has identified more 100 people who came into contact with a new case of the Ebola virus in the Democratic Republic of Congo, local media reported. The WHO says those identified are being monitored for symptoms and vaccinations will begin in the coming …
Read More »South Africa: President Ramaphosa announces end of COVID restrictions
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 …
Read More »Ghana: end of mandatory face mask wearing in public
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 …
Read More »WHO warns African countries against easing Covid restrictions
The World Health Organization (WHO), has warned African countries leaders against easing restrictions against the coronavirus pandemic. The WHO is concerned as most African countries are rolling back Covid-19 surveillance and quarantine measures. It says this is especially “worrisome in a continent that still has the lowest rates of vaccination …
Read More »Nigeria: no more PCR tests for travelers leaving the country
The Nigerian government says fully vaccinated travellers coming into the country will no longer be required to take a pre-departure PCR Covid-19 test. This is the first major reversal to the public health safety protocols since Nigeria started seeing a decline in the number of infections. The chairman of the …
Read More »Namibia: Masks and PCR tests no longer needed for this particular reason
The wearing of masks in public in Namibia and negative PCR tests for vaccinated visitors are no longer required, President Hage Geingob said on Tuesday, as active COVID-19 cases fall to just a couple of hundred. Infections peaked at more than 30,000 per month in June 2021 but the southern …
Read More »Health: Pfizer to supply Covid pills to Africa
Pharmaceutical company Pfizer is set to supply Africa’s top health body with its coronavirus pill. The drug, Paxlovid, is intended for use soon after symptoms develop in people at high risk of severe disease. Africa CDC director John Nkengasong, said paperwork for the deal between the Africa Centres for Disease …
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