World Health Organization (Geneva) Brazzaville — With the recent emergence in the African region of new COVID-19 variants which seem to have higher transmissibility, the World Health Organization (WHO) calls on countries to boost genomic surveillance and analysis through the African genome sequencing laboratory network to detect any new mutations and strengthen the efforts to […]
As of December 30, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 2,698,318. Reported deaths in Africa reached 64,068 and 2,256,722 people have recovered. South Africa has the most reported cases – 1,021,451 – and 27,568 people died. Other most-affected countries are Morocco (435,189), Egypt (135,233), Tunisia (134,802), Ethiopia (123,388), and Libya (99,350). For the latest totals, see the AllAfrica […]
By Nasibo Kabale Global efforts to curb the spread of Covid-19 have pushed the fight against malaria to the back burner. This shift of focus is so dire that the World Health Organization (WHO) now warns that “by the end of 2020, more people will have died of malaria than Covid-19”. The United Nations health […]
By Abbas Jimoh The federal government has said that despite the resources made available to states across the country, testing is very low across them in varying degrees. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Mr. Boss Mustapha, said this on Tuesday in […]
