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Business: Payments for UIF Covid-19 TERS were again halted to resolve gaps found by AG

The payments for the new and high-quality applications for the Covid-19 TERS remedy benefits have been halted while the Department of Employment and Labour and the Unemployment Insurance Fund (UIF) improve controls as urged by means of the Auditor-General (AG) of South Africa. The Department said in a assertion this transient halt would allow the […]

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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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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 […]

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Uganda converts national stadium into an auxiliary hospital as COVID-19 cases rise

In the light of the fast-growing COVID-19 incidents, Ugandan health ministry has transformed parts of Namboole National Stadium to into an auxiliary hospital to cater for the rapidly increasing numbers. The health ministry opened a treatment center situated in Wakiso ‘s central Ugandan province, about 15 km east of Kampala, the capital. The facility begins […]

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The World: Coronavirus sickens more than 182 people in Gaza

Palestinian health authorities registered 182 additional coronavirus instances in the blockaded Gaza Strip on Monday. In a statement, the Health Ministry stated the seaside territory’s tally rose to 1,151 cases, consisting of nine deaths, and 89 recoveries. The ministry renewed its calls on residents to adhere to precautionary measures to stem the infections, particularly among […]

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City Lodge parks dividend after loss of R486 m due to coronavirus

City Lodge Hotels parked its remaining dividend charge for the yr ended in June as it fluttered to a R486.6million loss on Covid-19 monetary fallout on its hotels. The crew stated the day gone by that it was once not planning to pay dividends in the short term, given the affect of Covid-19 on its […]

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The World: U.S. Health experts are fearful of huge crowds over the weekend on Labor Day

The U.S. has suggested almost 44,500 new coronavirus cases on Saturday as Americans celebrated the Labor Day weekend. “We don’t favor to see a repeat of the surges that we have seen following different vacation weekends,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said to CNN. “We don’t prefer […]

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Nigeria: International Flights resume after 5 months

Nigeria on Thursday introduced it would resume global flights beginning Sept. 5 after shuting down flights at its five worldwide airports on March 24 following the virus outbreak. Nigeria had formerly said it would resume flights overseas each time from Aug. 29. Incoming passengers to the us of a are required to elevate a file […]

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NEWS: Mozambique to lift state of emergency

Mozambique will lift the state of emergency to the unfold of coronavirus this weekend, President Filipe Nyusi announced in a tv address on Friday. Nyusi said the kingdom of emergency would stop Sunday night time as infections have no longer improved tons compared to neighbouring nations in the region. “We are proud of the measures […]

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Street artists fight COVID-19 with art in Rwanda

Street artists in Rwanda are painting the walls in bright colours with an important health message: to stay safe during the coronavirus pandemic. Armed with paints and spray cans, every morning artist Jimmy Rolland decorates walls with his murals. “My painting is one ways we can stop COVID-19, showing one of the way to stop […]