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Zimbabwe’s Minister of Finance and Economic Development, Professor Mthuli Ncube has back tracked from his earlier statement where he said some Zimbabweans will be required to pay for Covid-19 vaccination. His remarks came as Zimbabwe is expecting to take delivery of its first batch of COVID-19 vaccines from the People’s Republic of China. Without specifying […]
A further 468 people have died across the UK after testing positive for coronavirus, bringing the death toll to 34,466, the Department of Health has confirmed. The Government also met its daily target for 100,000 Covid-19 tests, according to the latest figures. In the 24-hour period up to 9am on Saturday, 136,486 tests were carried […]
The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 could become endemic like HIV, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday, warning against any attempt to predict how long it would keep circulating and calling for a “massive effort” to counter it. “It is important to put this on the table: this virus may become just another endemic virus […]
African Union official and former Kenyan Prime Minister Raila Odinga is the latest politician to deploy the language of war when it comes to talking about coronavirus. Mr Odinga, who is the AU’s high representative on infrastructure, said the pandemic was like “a third world war without the bombs”. “Even in the Second World War […]
Harare- Covid-19 cases have increased to 40 with the country recording 8 more new cases in a single day, the highest single jump since the outbreak was first confirmed in the country last month. The Ministry of Health confirmed in its daily update on the Covid-19 situation in the country, saying six of the new […]
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has approved emergency funds to support Nigeria’s efforts to limit the effect of coronavirus pandemic and the sharp fall of oil prices. The $3.4bn (£2.7bn) approved by the IMF board is the largest financing provided so far to countries hit by the pandemic, the organisation said in a statement. It […]
Ghana’s President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced plans to construct more than 90 hospitals to beef up Ghana’s health system in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak. According to the president, the pandemic has exposed the weakness in the country’s health system following years of under investment. But critics have questioned how the government intends to […]
In the wake of the Covid-19 the Zimbabwe government has directed that with immediate effect all bodies being repatriated from South Africa to Zimbabwe for burial will be treated as contagious except in cases where death is classified as murder, accident or other injury. This, Zimbabwe says is a way of curbing the deadly Covid-19 […]
The British government came under sustained pressure over all aspects of its coronavirus response on Wednesday as members of parliament got their first major opportunity in a month to hold it to account. With the latest hospital death toll from the virus rising to 16,272 in England alone and persistent reports of a lack of […]
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