Health

[The Point] The Gambia has registered 13 new positive coronavirus cases, bringing the total cases ever confirmed since March 2020 to 3,910.

[Citizen] Dar es Salaam — President John Magufuli on Monday, January 18, reiterated his call for the country to increase food production, predicting that the world will experience food scarcity this year due to the impacts of Covid-19.

[WHO] Your Excellency Dr Harsh Vardhan, Chair of the Executive Board, thank you for your leadership for your leadership during these difficult times.Excellencies, dear colleagues and friends,Good morning, good afternoon and good evening to you all, and…

[allAfrica] The city of Freetown has become one of five across the world to receive an award to help it expand a waste-management scheme aimed at helping young people in informal settlements to make a living and improve public health amid the challenge…

[GroundUp] Covid-19 call-outs have replaced call-outs to trauma victims, say Cape Town paramedics interviewed by GroundUp.

[Nyasa Times] A prominent Catholic priest has succumbed to coronavirus (Covid-19).

[Daily Maverick] South Africa has an estimated population approaching 60 million. To achieve herd immunity against COVID-19, the government recently set the ambitious goal of vaccinating 67% of the population – roughly 40 million people. According to t…

[Nation] Twenty eight of Kenya’s Covid-19 patients are under intensive care, the Health ministry said Monday in its daily update on the pandemic in Kenya.

[Govt of SA] South Africa and China to train public servants on governance and management of emergencies such as Covid-19

[Nyasa Times] There are growing fears that President Lazarus Chakwera and his Tonse alliance administration might fail to implement some of its campaign promises due to Covid-19.