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COVID-19 update: 1 102 new cases and 195 deaths recorded in SA
South Africa currently has a cumulative COVID-19 caseload of 1 492 909 along with 48 094 deaths and 1 391 155 recoveries.
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Source: South African News | Online News | The South African
Caricom urges WHO to convene international conference on COVID vaccine distribution
GENEVA, Switzerland (CMC) - The 15-member Caribbean Community (Caricom) yesterday reiterated its call for the World Health Organization (WHO) to host an international summit on the distribution of the novel coronavirus vaccine as it continued its call for the global community to realise that the
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India's dramatic fall in virus cases leaves experts stumped - Black News Channel
By KRUTIKA PATHI and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press NEW DELHI (AP) — When the coronavirus pandemic took hold in India, there were fears it would sink the fragile health system of the world's second-most populous country. Infections climbed dramatically for months and at one point India looked
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Africa: Rural-Urban Migration 'Cut Bush Burning, Air Pollution'
[SciDev.Net] Accra -- Harmful emissions of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) were reduced in 13 African countries in recent years, bucking the trend of increasing air pollution, as rural to urban migration led to a decline in agricultural burning, a study suggests.
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Source: allAfrica.com
Mozambique: Covid-19 - 735 New Cases and Five Deaths
[AIM] Maputo -- The Mozambican health authorities on Friday recorded the second highest daily total of new cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease since the start of the pandemic.
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Angola: Covid-19 - Angola With 28 New Infections and 10 Recoveries
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angola announced the registration of 28 new cases, two deaths and 10 recovered patients, in the last 24 hours.
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Source: allAfrica.com
Angola: Covid-19 - Angola Reports 98 Recoveries, 27 New Infections
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Angola has registered, in the last 24 hours, the recovery of 98 patients and 27 new cases.
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President Cyril Ramaphosa set to relax lockdown restrictions earlier than expected | News24
President Ramaphosa will be addressing South Africans on Monday night and he is expected to relax restrictions such as the booze and beach bans.
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'Anti-Vax' fight
Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton says that, with Jamaica virtually assured of vaccines to meet initial COVID-19 immunisation demand later this month, the Government will turn focus on addressing negative responses to the jab.
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Calls for 'radical lockdown across Europe' growing louder
Campaigners said determined action by several countries has shown that it is possible to end the spread of the virus.
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Nigeria: How to Close Nigeria's 600 Million Condom Demand Gap
[Premium Times] "Popularizing condom use, at this time, represents one of the most important public health initiatives..."
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US$1m Easter suprise
International outsourcing firm Hinduja Global Solutions (HGS) has doled out US$1 million to reward its Jamaica employees, after the local operation surpassed all the targets for the financial year 2020-2021. The India-headquartered company began...
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Covid-19 wrap: EU vaccine rollout 'unacceptably slow', France bans outdoor drinking, new Brazil variant | News24
The novel coronavirus has killed at least 2 816 908 people since the outbreak emerged in China in December 2019, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP.
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Uganda: 1,000 New-Born Babies, 52 Mothers Die in Two Years
[Monitor] At least 1,038 new-born babies and 52 mothers have died in Lira District in a span of two years due to complications during pregnancy and childbirth.
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Kenya Covid: 335 new infections, as 340 patients recover
What you need to know: From the new cases, 307 are Kenyans while 28 are foreigners, with 233 being male and 102 female. The youngest case is of a one- year-old infant while the oldest is 94. The Ministry of Health has announced 335 new Covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours from 5,424 samples
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The pandemic’s silver lining - Health sector getting much-needed investment as COVID-19 delivers critical lessons
A year under the weight of the pandemic brought on by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, Jamaica creaking public health system is under the microscope as mounting cases of COVID-19 threaten to overwhelm the system, which has been starved of significant...
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Nigeria: 2021 - Nigeria Targets 11.95% Inflation After Missing Single-Digit Plan for Four Years
[Premium Times] The government hopes that taming food prices and the steep cost of doing business will help push inflation, which touched its near three-year high of 14.89 per cent in November, down to 11.95 per cent.
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HEALTH MINUTE: WARNING OF 'RAPID RISE' IN COVID CASES - The Seattle Medium
A new warning from top US health officials about coronavirus variants. New reports suggest those mutations could lead to a "rapid rise" in Covid-19 cases, if Americans become complacent. The post HEALTH MINUTE: WARNING OF 'RAPID RISE' IN COVID CASES appeared first on The Seattle Medium.
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UWI faces huge funding shortfall - Stabroek News
(Jamaica Gleaner) - The finances of The University of the West Indies, Mona, are in jeopardy, a state of affairs which chairman of the campus council, Earl Jarrett, admitted is threatening the viability of the largest university in
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Fauci: Almost a race between vaccinations and the surge | Dallas Weekly
(CNN) - The number of new Covid-19 cases has plateaued at a 'disturbingly high level,' and the US is at risk from a new surge, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned on Wednesday. While lower than the peak earlier this year, there were still more than 61,000 new cases reported on Wednesday, according to data
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Source: Dallas Weekly
Kenya: Covid Positivity Rate At 13.8pc, 7 Deaths Reported
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The country's COVID-19 positivity rate on Saturday maintained a surge above 10 per cent with seven virus-related fatalities reported raising the nationwide death toll since April 2020 to 1, 908 cases.
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Two more COVID-19 deaths, 100 new cases
Jamaica on Tuesday recorded two more COVID-19 deaths, pushing the tally to 355. The deceased are a 41-year old man from St Elizabeth and a 49-year old woman from Hanover. One more case was recorded as a coincidental death, pushing that figure to 64...
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COMMENTARY: Did Publix Make Dispensing the Covid-19 Vaccine Political? | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Why did Publix neglect the counties with the most COVID-19 cases and deaths in the entire state? What executive made the decision on which stores would dispense the vaccine? What data did they use? Who thinks it is logical to omit sending vaccines to a county with more than 350,000
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Victims of abuse turn voices of hope
Peta-Gay Milne, a blind woman, was abused for four years by someone who also had a disability. She was among a four-member panel of women who shared their experiences with gender-based violence during a Women’s Day symposium themed ‘Unmasking...
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Kenya: Covid-19 - Kenya Records 66 New Cases, Positivity Rate of 3.6%
[Nation] Kenya on Monday recorded 66 new Covid-19 cases from a sample of 1,833 tested within a day, which placed the positivity rate at 3.6 per cent, its lowest in weeks.
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As California Virus Cases Fall, More People Than Ever Dying - Black Voice News
Brian Melley and Amy Taxin | Associated Press As a hospice nurse, Antonio Espinoza worked to ease people's passage into death. Just 36 years old, it seemed unlikely he soon would be on that journey. But when the unpredictable coronavirus hit Espinoza, he spiraled from fever to chi
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African American Stars Discuss "The Culture & Journey of the Black Baseball Player" | BlackPressUSA
NNPA NEWSWIRE — “It’s super special, man, especially with the tone of the country and the tone of the world right now…this has been going on for a while, so we’re always fighting to make our mark…give something for the community to look up to,” said Kyle Lewis of the Seattle Mariners, a stud
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Covid-19: Western Cape govt 'extremely worried' Easter, Ramadan gatherings may cause another wave | News24
The Western Cape Health Department is concerned that the upcoming Easter holidays and Ramadan, could see a spike in cases.
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Ugandans Stuck As Kenya's Inter-Counties Travel Ban Bites
[Citizen] Kenya's decision to halt the movement of interstate buses across its border following a surge in Covid-19 cases has left several Ugandans stranded in the neighbouring East African country.
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WHO says be 'careful' about attributing where Covid-19 pandemic originated
"We are in a race between the virus that is going to continue to mutate in order to spread more easily and the humanity that has to try and stop its spreading," said WHO’s technical lead on Covid-19, Maria Van Kerkhove.
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