Portable ultrasound devices are making a difference to maternal health care in remote Kenyan villages, enabling pregnancy-related complications to be identified earlier. This critical technology is improving the health of mothers and babies, offering new…
Under the direction of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister, and Ruler of Dubai, Dubai Humanitarian (DXB-H) has effectively enabled the delivery of urgently needed relief goods to N'djamena,…
Tanzania and Somalia on Monday confirmed their first cases of the coronavirus. Tanzania’s Health Minister called on citizen to remain calm, as a 46-year-old woman in the country tested positive for the virus, according to…
Normal operations have resumed at the Mbagathi Hospital after its nurses called off their strike. Speaking to the Star on Monday evening, Mbagathi Hospital chairman George Osewe said the decision was arrived at after a…
Sudan’s has ordered the closure of schools and universities for one month from Saturday to control the spread of coronavirus, a statement from the cabinet said. The statement said all public gatherings, such as weddings…
Shopping malls in the Nairobi have rolled out plans to limit coronavirus exposure to visitors and ensure businesses remain afloat. This, even as the government asks members of the public to limit unnecessary movement after…
Rwanda has confirmed its first case of coronavirus, an Indian citizen who arrived in the East African nation from Mumbai on March 8, the Health Ministry said on Saturday. He had no symptoms on arrival…
The Ministry of health in Mauritania has confirmed the first case of coronavirus in the West African country in a statement on Friday. The patient is a European man living in Mauritania who returned to…
Sudan and guinea have also recorded cases of the coronavirus pandemic bring the number of African countries infected to sixteen as at midday of March 13, 2020. The Guinean case was of a Belgian national…
Nkrumah said one of the cases is a Ghanaian who works in Turkey and have returned to the country over a week ago. In a joint press conference with the Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyeman…
The Democratic Republic of Congo DRC has records the first case of coronavirus in the country. The patient, first announced as a Belgian national, then as a Congolese living in Belgium, is been quarantined in…
While the coronavirus outbreak has been gaining ground all over the world with more than 100 countries already affected, many Libyans believe that isolation of their war-torn country could alleviate the threat. Badreddine al-Najjar is…
Ivory Coast have recorded its index case of coronavirus according to multiple reports in the West African country. The case was reported in the capital Abidjan. The country becomes the fifth in the region to…
The Ministry of Health in Morocco on Tuesday has said the country has recorded its first death linked to the new coronavirus, an 89-year-old woman who suffered from chronic health problems. The woman, a Moroccan…
Egypt confirmed the first fatality due to the coronavirus in the country – the first reported death on the continent. The health ministry confirmed the case involved a 60-year-old German citizen admitted to a public…
The Zimbabwe government has said that the death of a woman who had been returned from China and referred to Wilkins Hospital, an institution designated for infectious diseases, had nothing to do with the novel…
The World Health Organization says confirmed COVID-19 cases is almost at 100,000. At a press conference in Geneva, Switzerland Friday, Director General Dr. Tedros Ghebreyesus appealed to all nations to make containment of COVID-19 their…
Minister of health Dr Zweli Mkhize has confirmed a second case of the coronavirus (Covid-19) in South Africa. A 39-year-old lady from Gauteng was in direct contact with the first case from KwaZulu-Natal. She was…
The South African National Defence Force (SANDF) on Friday denied reports that soldiers were not be willing to go to Wuhan to evacuate South Africa citizens, due to the coronavirus outbreak. According to EWN, more…
The International Monetary Fund, (IMF) and World Bank Group on Wednesday announced other measures to curb the impact of the coronavirus on the world’s economy and health. “We know the disease is spreading quickly with…
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