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There is confusion and growing speculation with regards reasons why schools have remained closed in Zimbabwe. Teachers had threatened to go on strike over poor pay. Observers say president Mnangagwa’s declaration that schools will remain indefinitely closed, which came hours after the ministry of primary and secondary education published the school calendar which stated a […]
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni on Friday announced plans to lift COVID-19 containment measures in January that had been in place since March 2020, including reopening schools, bars and nightclubs, citing rising vaccination rates. The East African nation has imposed some of Africa’s toughest restrictions. In September, some measures were eased, including allowing the resumption of […]
France reported 219,126 new confirmed coronavirus cases in a 24-hour period on Saturday, the fourth day in a row that the country has recorded more than 200,000 cases. Saturday’s figure is the second-highest to date after the 232,200 record set on Friday, when French President Emmanuel Macron said that the next few weeks would be […]
The UK has reported more than 100,000 daily cases for the first time since of the start of the pandemic. Some 106,122 cases have been recorded in the latest 24-hour period – around 13,000 more than the previous high of 93,045 on 17 December. A further 140 coronavirus-related deaths have also been recorded. The figures […]
President Cyril Ramaphosa has thanked those who sent messages during his illness and he also wished everyone who has contracted COVID-19 a speedy recovery.
The South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has tested positive for Covid-19. Ramaphosa is expected to step aside and allow himself to heal. Report Focus News has it on good authority that Deputy president David Mabuza would be taking over “all responsibilities” for the next week. According to a statement issued shortly after 10pm on Sunday […]
The Omicron variant has now become dominant in South Africa and is driving the increase in new infections. The National Institute for Communicable Diseases has said more than 70% of all the virus genomes it has sequenced last month had been of the new variant. South Africa recorded just over 8,500 new Covid-19 infections in […]
Health experts have warned British Prime minster Boris Johnson that a coronavirus crisis looms if measures are not put in place to arrest it. “Plan B” coronavirus restrictions must be enforced immediately to prevent the UK “stumbling to a winter crisis”, an NHS leader has warned. NHS Confederation chief executive Matthew Taylor has urged the […]
Harare- The College of Primary Care Physicians of Zimbabwe (CPCPZ), which represents general practitioners, has written to the Ministry of Health requesting permission to prescribe the drug Ivermectin to Covid-19 patients. Ivermectin is a veterinary drug used largely for nematode control in cattle, horses, pigs, and dogs and became the standard for control of the […]
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