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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has lifted and scaled back some anti-Covid-19 measures, including reopening schools and freeing travel in and out of Nairobi.
South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
[The Conversation Africa] Following a maritime boundary dispute, Somalia instituted proceedings against Kenya at the International Court of Justice in August 2014. The two east African neighbours dispute 160 000 square kilometres of territory in the Indian Ocean with prospects of vast oil and gas deposits.
The Republic of Congo on Wednesday denied allegations in the \"Pandora Papers\" global exclusive which said President Denis Sassou Nguesso had used an offshore company to stash away assets.
May 15: Somalis outraged over ‘fleeing compatriots, officials’
\tA local radio station in the country reported that a number of Somalis including government officials had left the country in the wake of COVID-19 spread especially in the capital Mogadishu.
Total confirmed cases = 1,284
Total recoveries = 135
Total deaths = 53
Active cases = 1,096
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 15, 2020 10:00 GMT
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May 5: Probe into mishap involving Kenya coronavirus jet
\tSomalia case stats as of May 5, 2020: Total confirmed cases: 835, Total recoveries: 75, Total deaths: 38.
Somalia’s president has promised his Kenyan counterpart a “thorough investigation” into the deadly crash of a Kenyan plane carrying medical supplies in Somalia, while one Somali official asserts that the aircraft was shot down.
AP
May 2: ‘Game of deaths’: Somalia’s unusually high deaths amid virus spread
\tSomalia is recording a spate of double digit deaths since after mid April 2020, a situation which has led to concerns among relevant authorities.
Officially, however, Somalia has recorded 601 confirmed cases of COVID-19 with 28 deaths and 31 recoveries according to John Hopkins University tallies valid as of May 2, 2020 at 9:30 GMT.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- Tunisia's foreign investment flows dropped 7.4% to 948.8 million dinars (MD) in H1 of 2021 against 1,020.9 MD during the same period last year.
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South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday announced new localized restrictions to stem a resurgence of Covid-19 in the south of the country, amid growing fears new infections could spiral into a second wave.
Authorities in Africa's worst virus-hit country have grown increasingly concerned by cluster outbreaks in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces that flared up last month.
Experts fear the uptick could spread further during the upcoming summer holiday when citizens criss-cross provinces to spend Christmas and New Year with family and friends.
\"We have always known that a second wave of infections is possible in South Africa if we do not take necessary measures,\" Ramaphosa said in an address to the nation on Thursday, noting that \"this virus does not take a holiday\".
South Africa recorded over 4,400 new infections on Wednesday, the highest 24-hour increase since mid-August.
Most of the resurge is driven by infections in the Eastern Cape, particularly in the Nelson Mandela Bay (NMB) municipality, home to the province's largest city of Port Elizabeth.
Ramaphosa said the area had now been declared a \"hotspot\" and subjected to a new set of restrictions.
A stricter 10:00 pm curfew will be imposed - compared to the midnight cut-off time in the rest of the country.
Alcohol sales and consumption will once again be limited to reduce trauma admissions to busy hospitals, and social gatherings capped.
Ramaphosa assured the new measures were not meant to \"punish\" NMB residents but to \"contain the spread of the virus\" and \"save lives\".
He said officials would soon be visiting two other cluster outbreak areas to determine an \"appropriate course of action\".
\"We need to quickly extinguish the flare-ups before they turn into an inferno,\" he added.
A total of 800,872 people are confirmed to have been infected by the virus in South Africa since March. Around 92 per cent of these people have recovered. This is good news. As of today, 21,803 people are known to have died from COVID-19 in South Africa.
— Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 #StaySafe (@CyrilRamaphosa) December 3, 2020
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
AFP
But hospitals in the Indian city of Varanasi had run out of space, oxygen, medicine, tests - everything. 'They told us everywhere was bad and people were lying on the hospital floors, and that there were no beds at all,' the 33-year-old said. His mother died before she could be tested for Covid-19. This week, India's government unveiled a compensation program that would provide 50,000 rupees (about $670) to the families of past and future Covid-19 victims. That's more than […]
[New Times] Ruhengeri Referral Hospital in Musanze District has deployed strong antibiotics to disinfect its neonatal care unit after 19 prematurely born babies died in March 2021, an unprecedented death toll, according to hospital authorities.
[VOA] Washington -- Somalia announced Thursday it has restored its diplomatic relations with Kenya, following talks between leaders of the neighboring countries, mediated by Qatar.
Andrew Cuomo's top aide apologized to Democratic lawmakers for underreporting and hiding thousands of coronavirus deaths that occurred in nursing homes
[East African] The United States has rallied its allies in the European Union for more sanctions against Ethiopia, including further funding cuts, over the Tigray conflict.
Earnings from cut-flower dropped by Sh3.1 billion in May as demand fell in major international markets due to supply chain disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The central English city of Leicester could be the country's first to face a local lockdown due to a rise in coronavirus cases, the UK's Home Secretary Priti Patel said Sunday.
Reports in the Sunday Times newspaper said the Government was set to reimpose strict lockdown rules on Leicester “within the next few days”.
Boris Johnson's Government is set to ease lockdown restrictions from July 4 — despite fears of a second wave of infections— by opening pubs, restaurants and hairdressers among others across England.
“I think nothing would be more damaging for our country, for our economy if we do have a second wave,” Patel said.
More than 43,500 people have died due to the coronavirus in Britain, official figures show.
[East African] Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and his Estonian counterpart Kersti Kaljulaid say the world must come together and make efforts to overcome the effects of Covid-19 and climate change.
THE police are asserting that the downward trend in the number of children reported missing over the past few years is not the result of a drop in reporting, but rather the efforts of stakeholders across the board.
I think that in the past few months, due to the coronavirus pandemic and the restrictions on movement and gatherings, the closing of schools and other entertainment and recreational facilities, as well [this would have contributed to more children remaining at home].
“We have had cases where a child was staying at another person's home and when the child was seen by the police in the downtown area they were with an adult and the adult is saying 'I didn't know this child was missing [as] she came home with my daughter who attends the same school and she gave some story and I thought it was in her best interest to provide some support',” Garrick said.
“Most of the time when you see [parental abductions], it's a breakdown in communication, because once you intervene and you get both sides of the story, oftentimes through mediation, you find that it's just because the parents are not talking, and that creates gaps, so persons feel there is no other action but to forcibly remove a child without the consent of the other,” Garrick said.
For example, a child might leave the primary caregiver's home to sometimes go to stay with other family members, so contact is made with the primary caregiver to say 'this person is here'; however, the police are not updated.
Tunisia's National Judo Team is not letting the COVID-19 pandemic keep them from their Olympic aspirations in Tokyo this summer.
\"We are planning for a worst case scenario,\" Western Cape health department head Dr Keith Cloete has said, referring to a third wave of Covid-19 infections.
