Category: International

By Duncan Mlanjira Malawi’s northern neighboring country, Tanzania has announced the first coronavirus case. Tanzania’s online publication, The Citizen reports that the patient is a 46-year-old female, who arrived in Tanzania on Sunday, March 15 from Belgium aboard RwandAir plane and landed at Kilimanjaro International Airport. The report says she left the country on March 3, while in Belgium she visited Sweden and Germany before she went back to Belgium and returned to Tanzania on March 15. The patient,…

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allAfica.com South Africa’s President Cyril Ramphosa announced “urgent and drastic measures” Sunday night — including banning gatherings of more than 100 people, closing schools and imposing extensive travel bans — to curb the spread of the coronavirus. Using a law known as the Disaster Management Act, he declared a ‘national state of disaster’ enabling the government to have what he called “an integrated and coordinated disaster management mechanism that will focus on preventing and reducing the outbreak of this…

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Liberian Observer The Liberian health authorities have informed President George M. Weah that the country has recorded its first case of the Coronavirus disease, otherwise known as COVID -19 and the patient happens to be head of the Environmental Protection Agency Nathaniel Blama. Blama is reported to have returned home last Friday, March 13, following a visit to Switzerland. Meanwhile, the Liberian leader urges all to remain calm as health officials continue to trace all those the infected person…

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Daily Maverick  The South African government is expected to introduce travel restrictions from some foreign countries and to recommend that all mass events in the country be cancelled or postponed in an effort to contain the spread of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) which the World Health Organisation this week declared a global pandemic. On Saturday, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize announced that the number of South Africans who had contracted the coronavirus had risen by 14 since Friday to reach 38,…

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By Dr Ahmed Mohiuddin Siddiqui The world is afflicted by the deadly Coronovirus. Many doctors, scientists and even some astrologers are seized of the matter.  In December 2019, there was a solar eclipse. India’s popular astro-gemologist, Dr. M. M. Raza, who is a regular feature on Urdu, Telugu and Kannada television channels in India, had then predicted  that the world will be confronted with calamities and a major disease.  This major disease turned out to be the pandemic Coronavirus…

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By Deutsche Welle As COVID-19 cuts a wide swathe of panic, the experts who beat Ebola in West Africa are looking on, knowingly. China and Italy are to the pandemic what Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia were to the epidemic of 2014-2016. On March 9, Italy — the worst-hit by coronavirus outside of China — extended its lockdown to the entire country in a bid to curb the spread. That decision in the European country of 60 million resonated…

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World Health Organisation The African region completed a critical step on Saturday towards wild polio eradication when an independent commission to decide on the African Region’s wild poliovirus-free status concluded its final field visit to Nigeria. The independent commission conducted the critical verification analysis based on the documentation presented by the Nigerian Government. The Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC) for wild poliomyelitis eradication carried out similar field visits in all the 47 countries of the World Health Organization (WHO)…

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