Coronavirus

Africa regrets 135,000 deaths from Covid, less than in other regions of the world. But the third wave is strengthening and accelerating on the continent, warns the World Health Organization (WHO). The number of deaths in Africa increased by 15% last week in Africa. Five countries are concentrating three quarters of the new…

A sense of dread grows in some of the poorest countries in the world as virus cases grow and more contagious variants tackle a crippling shortage of vaccines. The crisis has alerted public health officials along with millions of unvaccinated people, especially those who are struggling in the informal economy that is not the book, living hand-to-mouth and paying cash in health crises. With intensive care units filled in cities overwhelmed by the pandemic, serious illness can be a death sentence. Africa…

In Uganda, the recovery of the tourism sector this summer was threatened by the new outbreak of Covid-19 cases in the country. Tourist agencies, which see that their reservations increase for the months of July and August, fear the same situation as last year, when the airports remained closed from March to October 2020. In…

South Africa must sell 2 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. Millions of doses of this vaccine were contaminated with components of other vaccines at a facility in Baltimore, USA. According to US authorities, at least 60 million doses must be discarded. as reported from Johannesburg,Romain SongUntil a few…

Saturday 12 June is World Day Against Child Labor, a day organized under the auspices of the UN. Three days ago, Unicef ​​and the International Labor Organization pointed out in a report the increase in the number of children forced to work in the world due to the effects of the pandemic. Children's rights NGOs warn of the physical, health and economic consequences of these forms of exploitation for minors. The majority of them are between 5 and 11 years old. According toa report published by Unicef ​​and the…

Africa officially regrets 133,000 deaths from Covid-19 2020, according to the World Health Organization. But within organizations, we realize that this figure is largely underestimated due to a lack of testing and adequate reporting. According to a US study, the real path for African victims of Covid could be three to four times higher.…

The British Prime Minister invited Cyril Ramaphosa. The South African president "has played an important role internationally in the fight against Covid-19", the invitation card states. President Ramaphosa is already present at the G7 in Biarritz, France in 2019 and returns to the big tables with an ambition: to convince his partners that intellectual property patents must be revoked in order to…

The head of the Tunisian government, Hichem Mechichi, traveled to Geneva this Tuesday, June 8, for a two-day visit. He is accompanied by the Director of the Institut Pasteur in Tunis and the Chair of the Scientific Committee for the Fight against Coronavirus. The issue of getting vaccines for Tunisia is at the heart of the meetings that the Tunisian Prime Minister will hold in Geneva, including one on…

The announcement was made on Tuesday in New York. This is the largest private donation for the purchase of anticovid vaccine to date. The money will be handled by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention, set up by the African Union. Less than 2% of the continent's population has received a dose of the vaccine. We are…

Chad launched its vaccination campaign against Covid-19 on June 4 in N'Djamena, the capital, but also in the cities of Moundou and Abéché, after receiving 200,000 doses of the Sinopharm vaccine, a donation from China. Since March 19, 2020, Chad has registered 4,938 positive cases of Covid-19, including 174 deaths. as reported…