Health and medicine

President Faustin Archange Touadéra made an announcement within the nationwide media to evaluate the state of affairs of the Covid-19 epidemic. As of Could 18, the nation had registered 7,015 circumstances of contamination and greater than 96 deaths for the reason that pandemic started. The state of affairs is deteriorating and the president has determined to concern a decree declaring Covid-19 an…

Whereas vaccination campaigns are accelerating in some international locations, they're stagnating in others. LeMalawi needed to destroy almost 17,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine on Wednesday. Doses with out recipients that stopped expiring. A whole of 16,910 doses of AstraZeneca vaccine have been cremated on the Central…

If the third wave of epidemics in March-April has now handed, it was skilled with difficulties by hospital care, overwhelmed by the circumstances with Covid-19. And oxygen is barely there. Report back to a hospital within the capital. as reported from Nairobi, Albane ThirouardThroughout the peak of the disaster, a number of…

Preserving social spending in poor international locations within the context of the Covid-19 pandemic and decreased sources: that is the purpose of the debt moratorium. In Mali, based on the World Financial institution, it made it attainable to launch 7.3 billion FCFA for public funds between Could and December 2020. A modest "recent air" in comparison with final 12 months's expenditures. Illustration…

The Council of Ministers on Wednesday 12 Could determined to ease the air suspension measures within the territory. Madagascar has closed its borders to international flights for 3 weeks as a result of the second coronavirus wave and the South African variant. as reported from Madagascar, Laure VerneauIt is a derogatory…

In response to the Congolese Minister of Well being, 5 instances of the Indian variant have been found in a constructing within the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. 5 instances of the Indian variant of coronavirus have been recognized in Kinshasa, Congolese Well being Minister Jean-Jacques Mbungani Mbanda mentioned…

The baptism day of Malian "nonuplets" born final Tuesday in Morocco. 5 "featherweight" and quite a bit for early ladies and 4 boys. Their situation is "steady" based on the medical workforce on the non-public clinic Aïn Borja in Casablanca the place they have been born by caesarean part precisely seven days in the past. A high-risk being pregnant that required the evacuation of the mom to Morocco, an…

After months of delay, Madagascar lastly obtained its first anti-Covid-19 vaccines on Saturday morning, Could 7, via the UN's Covax program. That is the primary cargo of 250,000 doses of Covishield, which was obtained on the tarmac at Antananarivo Airport by a number of UN officers, chancellors and members of the federal government however with out the President of the Republic Andry Rajoelina.…

After this extraordinary beginning on Tuesday, Could 4, in Morocco, "mom and child" really feel "in line with gynecologist-obstetrician from the non-public clinic Aïn Borja. The mom, Halima Cissé, had been evacuated from Mali at the tip of March. 9 kids born alive from the identical being pregnant, a primary made attainable by the mobilization of a number of docs from Timbuktu to Casablanca by way of Bamako who did all the pieces to offer…

One third of Ghana's inhabitants is obese and one in ten Ghanaians is obese. By way of a wealthy food plan and sedentarization of life in city areas. Our correspondent in Accra,From the top of the morning, the streets of Accra are stuffed with the scent of the dishes we cook dinner: fried fish in stalls, sautéed plantain…