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The World: Spain reports 27,000 COVID-19 cases over weekend

After a weekend marked by unlawful parties throughout the country, Spain’s Health Ministry suggested 27,404 new coronavirus infections on Monday. The three-day total, which consists of data seeing that Friday, is up by means of much less than 1,000 compared to remaining weekend, however the wide variety of instances recognized in the closing two weeks […]

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NEWS: Significant crisis as COVID-19 brings tourism to its knees in Marrakech

Marrakesh is almost empty without the thousands and thousands of traffic who visit the snake charmers, story tellers and vibrant traders as the coronavirus pandemic brings tourism to its knees. Morocco has 35 million inhabitants and has recorded over 1,500 deaths from coronavirus and more than 86,600 validated cases. In the winding streets leading to […]

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Breaking: Nigeria hikes petrol prices as COVID-19 bites budget

Petrol prices have risen in Nigeria after the oil-rich nation dumped a controversial petrol subsidy system in the face of a coronavirus budget crunch. The cost of fuel at the pump has risen by around 15% in recent days, hitting a record high of 162 naira per litre ($0.42), after the government pushed on with […]

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NEWS: Feeding the homeless affected by Covid in South Africa

Volunteers in South Africa are feeding needy humans on a sports activities subject the place stray bullets from gang struggle are a day by day hazard. The group, in Lavender Hill outside Cape Town, hand out food to homeless people and youngsters every day. They feed some 300 human beings twice a day, after the […]

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Angola: Doctors Protest Against Police Brutality

A Doctor Mysteriously Dies in Police Custody Angola’s Doctors’ Union led around a hundred protesters in a march thru the city centre in Luanda on Saturday to denounce police brutality and demand an investigation into the suspicious demise of Silvio Dala in police custody after he used to be arrested for using except a face […]

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NEWS: Tourism Hoping Namibia Reopens Border to International Flights

Borders are Open in Namibia Ready for takeoff! Aeroplane runways in Namibia, as the Southern African country reopened its borders on September 1. The country hopes to fix hundreds of jobs in the country’s Covid-19 pandemic hard-hit tourism region — its third-largest source of overseas trade after the mining and fishing industries. As ultimate year […]

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South Africa records 1,816 new COVID-19 cases, 49 deaths

South Africa recorded 1,816 new cases of the novel coronavirus Saturday and 49 deaths, according to Health Minister Zweli Mkhize. Almost 4 million people have been tested for the virus on account that it was first detected in the country in March. Mkhize said 18,620 humans have been tested for the virus in the closing […]

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Covid-19 Pandemic Sees Kenyan School Staff Struggle

School is Still Out in Kenya The education system in Kenya has taken a serious blow from the Covid-19 pandemic as many schools, closed since March 15 and scheduled to reopen in January 2021, many school teachers and staff have taken drastic measures in order to survive the imposed lockdown virus-prevention sanitary measures that see […]

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180 COVID-19 vaccines in development – WHO

Around 180 vaccines to combat COVID-19 are in development worldwide, consisting of 35 in human trials, the WHO chief stated on Friday. “No ailment in history has considered such rapid development in research. It’s a testament to the extremely good advances in science and technological know-how the world has made in latest years,” Director-General Tedros […]

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The World: Spain’s hospitality arm is protesting in the second wave of the virus

Members of Spain’s hospitality area protested Wednesday to draw interest to the precarious role it finds itself in in the course of the 2d wave of the pandemic as the country said another surge in COVID-19 infections. Thousands who work at bars, restaurants, lodges and nightclubs protested on Madrid streets while others across the us […]

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Breaking: S.Africans react to economic meltdown

South Africans on the street are weighing in on the latest economic indicators showing the economy contracted by 51 per cent in the second quarter of this year. South Africa’s economy shrank by more than half in the second quarter, an unprecedented decline, as the coronavirus pandemic took its toll on the continent’s most industrialised […]

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Politics: Voters take part in ‘illegal’ election in Ethiopia’s Tigray region

Ageing war veterans and university students joined long pre-dawn lines in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region to vote Wednesday in parliamentary elections that Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government has deemed illegal. Polls opened at 6am (0300 GMT) across the mountainous northern Tigray region despite a federal decision to postpone all elections because of the coronavirus pandemic. […]

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Ethiopia: PM hails growing COVID-19 testing capacity in the country

The Ethiopian Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, commended the country’s growing COVID-19 checking out capability as the quantity of demonstrated instances reached 59,648 as of Monday. Ethiopia’s proven COVID-19 cases reached 59,648 after 976 new cases were registered on Monday, the country’s Ministry of Health said. The ministry said in a statement that 15 extra patients […]

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Uganda: 13 health workers test positive for COVID-19

Uganda’s Ministry of Health on Tuesday suggested 124 new conformed COVID-19 instances taking the East African nation’s caseload to 3,900. 13 of the instances have been fitness people accounting for 10.5 percent of all the new cases. Apac District in the northern area of Uganda accounted for most of these instances (three) accompanied by means of Lira […]

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Business: Economy Down by 51% in 2nd Quarter in South Africa

South Africa’s economy, the most industrialised in Africa, collapsed by using 51% between April and June in light of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to the country’s information agency. An unheard of decline in GDP used to be anticipated as the countrywide lockdown on March 27th imposed to curb the unfold of the new coronavirus, noticed […]

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The World: 2nd coronavirus wave ‘imminent’ – UK experts

British Health Secretary Matt Hancock announced a tightening of coronavirus restrictions in a northern English city on Tuesday as leading health professionals warned that a 2d wave “is coming.” Hancock stated Bolton now has 120 instances per 100,000 people, the highest fee in the country. He singled out young people in their twenties and thirties, […]

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Breaking: Egypt tries plasma treatment to fight pandemic

The treatment of the new coronavirus with plasma brings of hopevto Egypt where there is an estimated 100,000 cases and more than 5,000 deaths. The 25-year-old land surveyor from Cairo caught the disease in May, on the eve of the Muslim Eid al-Fitr festival, becoming one of the almost 100,000 reported cases in Egypt, where […]

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Education: Morocco imposed a lockdown and shut its schools

Morocco imposed a lockdown on Casablanca and shut its schools Monday, the day they were supposed to reopen after summer, in a bid to stop the spread of Covid-19. The new measures, which include restrictions on movement and a night-time curfew, would be in place for two weeks in the commercial capital, the authorities said […]