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Three people were killed when an illegal gold mine collapsed in southern Ghana and rescuers were trying to reach at least a dozen more trapped inside.
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— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) November 12, 2020
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Maputo — Mozambique's National Director of Public Health, Rosa Marlene, announced on Tuesday that a further 20 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease have been diagnosed, bringing the total number of known Covid-19 cases in the country to 453.
Speaking in Maputo at the Health Ministry's daily press conference on the Covid-19 situation, Marlene said that, since the start of the crisis, 15,190 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes the disease, 610 of them in the previous 24 hours.
The distribution of the 453 positive cases by province is as follows: Cabo Delgado, 164; Nampula, 136; Maputo City, 71; Maputo Province, 47; Sofala, 13; Niassa, 5; Tete, 5; Inhambane, 4; Manica, 3; Gaza, 3; Zambezia, 2.
As for the claim made by one World Health Organisation (WHO) official, Maria van Kerkhove, that transmission of Covid-19 by asymptomatic people is \"very rare\", the Director of Surveys of the National Health Institute, Sergio Chicumbe, politely dismissed it.
He pointed out that the reference to symptoms is often subjective - while the temperature of a patient can be readily measured, this was not the case with other Covid-19 symptoms, for which doctors depended on descriptions given by the patients themselves.
Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula cancelled a meeting planned for Sunday with taxi operators who have been negotiating to be able carry more passengers, and to cross provincial borders during the coronavirus restrictions.
\"The minister needs to hear from the [National Coronavirus Command Council] what their final decision will be regarding the inter-provincial travel, as well as the 100% loading capacity that the taxi industry is asking for,\" said Mbalula's spokesperson Ayanda Allie-Payne.
Western Cape SA National Taxi Council provincial secretary Nazeem Abdurahman told News24 that they had lost a lot of income from operating with fewer passengers.
They also feel that the proposed compensation of income losses during coronavirus of around R5 000 per operator is far too little, given how hard they have worked to keep people moving and how much they have lost by the enforced 70% passenger limit.
Santaco national spokesperson Thabisho Molelekwa said the taxi operators would conduct a virtual meeting at 14:00 on Sunday to discuss Mbalula's bailing on Sunday's meeting.
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Paris – The novel coronavirus has killed at least 385 869 people since the outbreak first emerged in China last December, according to a tally from official sources compiled by AFP at 11:00 (GMT) on Thursday.
Yerevan – Hospitals in Armenia can no longer cope with the number of coronavirus patients, the country's prime minister warned on Thursday.
But it was not until two weeks later that the authorities set down restrictions for the country's 25 million people.
Amphetamine use soars in locked down Finland - study
Helsinki – Finns may be known for their love of vodka and beer, but growing numbers in the Nordic nation appear to have turned to amphetamines to cope with the coronavirus lockdown, health officials said on Thursday.
Use of amphetamines in the country of 5.5 million people has tripled since 2013, according to wastewater studies, Gunnar said.
Maputo — Mozambique's National Director of Public Health, Rosa Marlene, announced on Thursday that, with the diagnosis of a further eleven positive cases in the previous 24 hours, the number of people diagnosed with the disease in Mozambique has risen to 662.
Speaking in Maputo, at the daily Ministry of Health press conference on the Covid-19 situation, Marlene said the number of people tested for the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 since the start of the pandemic now stands at 21,780.
Six of the new cases are in Maputo city, and one each was diagnosed in Nampula city, in the Cabo Delgado provincial capital of Pemba, in Tete city, in Inhambane city and in Maputo province (Magude district, on the border with South Africa).
Marlene added that a further six Covid-19 patients have made a full recovery, three in Maputo City and three in Cabo Delgado.
As of Thursday the breakdown of positive cases by province was: Nampula, 213; Cabo Delgado 199; Maputo City, 112; Maputo province, 71; Tete, 20; Sofala, 15; Inhambane 13; Niassa, seven; Zambezia, five; Gaza, four; Manica, three.
LEADING oil processing giant company, Castor Oil, has embarked on a programme to support small-scale and commercial farmers in growing the essential castor beans crop, which the firm believes has a potential to boost Zimbabwe’s fuel capacity.
In an interview with NewsDay Business yesterday, Castor Oil Zimbabwe chief executive Careen Yosef said the conglomerate was willing to support more farmers in the country who were willing to specialise in engineered castor beans production.
At the moment, we have over 400 small-scale farmers in rural areas who took up castor bean (farming), with 150 commercial famers already having started haversting,” she said.
Yosef revealed that castor bean takes at least four months from germination to harvesting, which makes brisk business for farmers specialising in growing it as they will rake in income three times a year.
Castor Oil has already set up a processing plant in Marondera, where they produce bio-diesel from the castor bean and hope to scale up production if more farmers start growing the crop.
The Creole Case was the result of an American slave revolt in November 1841 on board the Creole, a ship involved in the United States coastwise slave trade. As a consequence of the revolt, 128 enslaved people won their freedom in the Bahamas, then a British possession. Because of the number of people eventually freed, the Creole mutiny was the most successful slave revolt in U.S history.
In the fall of 1841, the brig Creole, which was owned by the Johnson and Eperson Company of Richmond, Virginia, transported 135 slaves from Richmond for sale to New Orleans, Louisiana. The Creole had left Richmond with 103 slaves and picked up another 32 in Hampton Roads, Virginia. Most of the slaves were owned by Johnson and Eperson, but 26 were owned by Thomas McCargo, a slave trader who was one of the Creole passengers. The ship also carried tobacco; a crew of ten; the captain’s wife, daughter, and niece; four passengers, including slave traders; and eight black slaves of the traders.
Madison Washington, an enslaved man, who escaped to Canada in 1840 at age twenty-five but was later captured and sold when he returned to Virginia in search of his wife Susan, was among those being shipped for sale to New Orleans. On November 7, 1841, Washington and eighteen other male slaves rebelled, overwhelming the crew and killing John R. Hewell, one of the slave traders. The captain of the ship, Robert Ensor, was also wounded in the uprising. One of the slaves was badly wounded and later died. Some other crew members were wounded also but survived.
The rebels took overseer William Merritt at his word that he would navigate for them. They first demanded that the ship be taken to Liberia. When Merritt told them that the voyage was impossible because of the shortage of food or water, another rebel, Ben Blacksmen, said they should be taken to the British West Indies, as he knew the slaves from the Hermosa had gained their freedom the previous year under a similar circumstance. On November 9, 1841, the Creole reached Nassau where it
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment benefits fell last week to 709,000, a still-high level but the lowest figure since March and a further sign that the job market might be slowly healing. Yet the improvement will be put at risk by the sharp resurgence in confirmed viral infections to an […]
Luanda — Angola registered, last Wednesday, two more positive cases of covid-19, bringing to 73 the number of people infected with the disease.
Franco Mufinda, who was speaking at the usual pandemic data update conference, said the two patients are already being monitored by medical staff.
As of 7 pm on Wednesday, Angola recorded 73 positive cases, 45 of which were local transmission, with 4 deaths, 18 recovered, 51 active and one case that requires special attention.
In the chapter of laboratory tests, he reported that 10,000 tests were carried out, which resulted in 73 positive cases and 7,626 negative ones.
The country has 1,262 people in institutional quarantine, 50 of whom have already been discharged, 41 from Luanda, 2 from Bié, 1 from Lunda Norte, 1 from Huíla and four from Cabinda Province.
Workers check in residents at a mobile COVID-19 testing site set up on a vacant lot in the Austin neighborhood on June 23, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois.
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The sentiment was expressed just as the U.S. continues to see a surge of new infections of the virus.
“We’re not in the situation of New Zealand or Singapore or Korea where a new case is rapidly identified and all the contacts are traced and people are isolated who are sick and people who are exposed are quarantined and they can keep things under control,” she said.
Johns Hopkins University has put together data to show that New Zealand had 89 new cases a day when the virus was ravaging their country in April.
Schuchat added that there were so many outbreaks taking place all at once in the country, which makes it even harder to get the virus under control.
Fashion runway shows give designers the opportunity to showcase their latest creations to the industry and enthusiasts.
Now one designer has revolutionized the game with her innovative virtual runway show that has set a new standard in how designers showcase their latest works.
Over the weekend, Congolese designer Anifa Mvuemba created a social media firestorm when she gave the world a preview at her latest collection from her fashion brand, Hanifa, on Instagram Live on Friday with a groundbreaking 3D runway presentation.
The digital models walked down the invisible runway showcasing the designer’s creations from the Pink Label Congo collection featuring a series of vibrant colored designs on headless, three-dimensional silhouettes.
The Maryland resident sat down in an interview with Teen Vogue to talk about the new idea and why it was important to provide access to her showcase through social media.
ZIMBABWE’S poultry sector recorded a 13% drop in output after producing an average of 16,95 million day-old chicks in the first quarter of this year, Zimbabwe Poultry Association (ZPA) chairperson Solomon Zawe has said. BY MTHANDAZO NYONI In his latest industry update, Zawe said production of broiler chicks took a knock in the first quarter to March compared to the same period last year, averaging 5,65 million per month. Last year, 19,41 million chicks were produced between January and March. Zawe said following the imposition of movement restrictions in April this year, chick uptake plummeted further to 4,1 million. “As a direct result of small and medium producers not being able to access transport or being denied permission to collect feed and other inputs from agro-dealers located in central business districts of urban areas, 1,4 million chicks were destroyed in April. Following readjustments by breeders, chick production remained at 4,1 million in May,” he said. Chick prices increased by 46% in the first quarter and a further 79% for April and May. In May, chick prices had increased to $2 436 (US$39) per 100 birds. The number of birds processed by large-scale abattoirs was 1,97 million per month in the period under review, which was 4% down on the same period last year. Similarly, large-scale, small-scale and total broiler meat production increased by 6 to 9%. “However, over the months of April and May, large- and small-scale broiler meat production is estimated to have declined by 10 and 17% respectively, yielding an estimated total 6 274 metric tonnes (mt) per month over this period,” the ZPA boss said. Despite these reductions in production, Zawe said large-scale stockholding increased to their highest levels of 2 542mt in April and 2 254mt in May. While producer prices over these months increased by 57% to $61,44 per kg, prices indexed to the US dollar declined by 10% to US$1,18 per kg. Wholesale prices on average increased by 44% in the first quarter and a further 57% for April and May. However, indexed to the US dollar, prices for the first quarter remained static and decreased by 10% for April and May. Total growing and in-production layer breeder stocks averaged 45 990 birds per month in the first quarter of 2020, a decrease of 2% on the prior period. Production of layer hatching eggs in the period under review averaged 0,64 million eggs per month, being a decrease of 12% compared to the same period last year. Sexed pullet (layer day-old chicks) production averaged 180 069 per month, being a reduction of 32% on prior quarter. During the months of April and May, sexed pullet production dropped by 58% and averaged 76 408 pullets per month accompanied by the destruction of 9 800 birds in April. The average price of sexed pullets rose by 58% in the first quarter of this year and a further 82% for the period April and May, peaking at $3 700 in May. However, indexed to the US dollar, pullet prices averaged US$56,13 per 100 birds over the April-May period. Zawe said the national lockdown and movement restrictio
Artful photos of sunsets and ice cream are being challenged by more activist content on Instagram as it turns 10 years old in a time of social justice protests, climate crisis, and the pandemic.
By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER AP Economics Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — America's employers added 661,000 jobs in September, the third straight month of slower hiring and evidence from the final jobs report before the presidential election that the economic recovery has weakened. With September's hiring gain, the economy has recovered only slightly more than half the 22 million jobs that were wiped out by the viral pandemic. The nearly 10 million jobs that remain lost exceed the number that the nation shed during the entire 2008-2009 Great Recession. By comparison with September, employers added nearly 1.5 million jobs in August, 1.8 million […]
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Although cattle rustling has always been a prevalent issue in the South Rupununi, a group of small-scale ranchers say rustling has increased since the coronavirus pandemic began and are calling on the relevant authorities to launch an investigation into the matter.
During a recent two-day round-up in the savannahs, six small-scale ranchers from Karaudarnau village discovered that almost all their cattle were missing.
The ranchers, who did not want to be named, revealed that after an intense two-day search, they were lucky to find a few.
There is no central collection of cattle-theft statistics in the area and rustling sometimes goes unreported because its small numbers could be attributed to an animal wandering off.
However, when the numbers are larger, there is little doubt that it is the work of cattle rustlers.
Today, as the number of COVID-19 cases exceeds 2.2 million nationally and the country’s death toll rapidly approaches 120,000, California is among the growing number of states contributing to these rising numbers.
As warranted, the number of people being tested for COVID-19 in both Riverside and San Bernardino Counties are increasing and most understand the correlation between the increased number of people being tested and the increasing number of positive cases.
On Thursday, June 18, 2020 Riverside experienced the highest number of hospitalizations in a single day with 291 COVID-19 patients countywide; and San Bernardino saw its highest number in recent weeks with 313 hospitalizations.
As a result of Riverside Counties rising numbers, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has added the county to its Data Monitor Watch List which calls for targeted engagement between the county and the state as a result of its rising numbers of hospitalizations and deaths.
Now, barely a month later as noted by the CDPH, “Riverside County is experiencing elevated disease transmission based on the following: general increases in local gatherings; outbreaks at state prisons and skilled nursing facilities; potential transmission at public protests; in-county patient transfers from Imperial County; patients seeking care from Northern Baja California and traveling along SR-86 corridor into Coachella Valley.”
Research from Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital shows that many people with mild or asymptomatic Covid-19 demonstrate so-called T-cell immunity to the disease.
Marcus Buggert, assistant professor at the Centre for Infectious Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, and one of the paper’s main authors, said: “T-cells are a type of white blood cells that are specialised in recognising virus-infected cells, and are an essential part of the immune system.
“Our results indicate that roughly twice as many people have developed T-cell immunity compared to those who we can detect antibodies in.”
Healthy blood donors who gave blood during 2020 and 2019 were also Soo Aleman, who has been testing patients since the start of the outbreak, said: “One interesting observation was that it wasn’t just individuals with verified Covid-19 who showed T-cell immunity but also many of their exposed asymptomatic family members.
The researchers say larger and more longitudinal studies are now needed on both T-cells and antibodies to understand how long immunity lasts.
Defeaning vuvuzelas and party songs took over Ghana's capital Accra on Saturday, the final day of campaigning ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections.
Twelve candidates, including three women, are vying for the west African nation's top job, but Monday's vote is essentially a fight between President Nana Akufo-Addo, 76, and former head of state John Mahama.
The city centre was plastered with billboards and posters and flags at every corner.
Akufo-Addo, running for a second term, drove through the shanty town of Nima, making whistle stops to acknowledge mammoth crowds clad in T-shirts of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
\"It’s a done deal. It’s clear. The crowd says it all. Four more (years) for Nana,\" a party supporter, Dauda Faisal said.
Defying all COVID-19 protocols -– with just a handful wearing face masks -- the ecstatic crowd waved miniature flags as the president headed towards the rally grounds where he was due to address supporters.
Opposition leader John Mahama meanwhile kicked off his final day of campaigning by meeting local chiefs and labour union leaders, assuring them of more jobs if he won the December 7 election.
Mahama, 62, who has been campaigning hard for months, was expected later in the evening at a rally organised by his party, the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
More than 17 million people are registered to vote in the nation's eighth poll since it returned to democracy nearly 30 years ago.
This is the third time that Akufo-Addo and Mahama are running against each other, and the race is expected to be very close.
Results could be announced within 24 hours after the polls close.
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The Consumer Affairs Commission (CAC) yesterday announced that it has started to make contact with the 381 motorists who have been approved for compensation based on formal complaints they had submitted, and it is now ready to start making payments.
Addressing a virtual media briefing, head of the CAC Dolsie Allen underscored that motorists whose claims were certified by a team established by her agency will be getting an ex gratia payment and not a real settlement.
According to Allen, the CAC received 423 complaints of which 287 were approved for full payment, 94 were approved for partial payment, and 42 were found to not qualify for any compensation.
Allen said the CAC has already started calling the people who are to be compensated based on the claims that they made, and those individuals are being given dates to make contact with the agency for payment.
The CAC head was unable to say the level of payment to be made to each motorist but minister of state in the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries Floyd Green told the media briefing that claims ranged from a low of $2,000 to a high of more than $700,000.
A couple of Volkswagen bigwigs say they’re baffled by how an inflammatory ad for their Golf 8 made it onto their Instagram and Facebook pages.
The ad shows a large hand of a white person pushing away a dark-skinned man from a vehicle, another lifting him up, then the first plucking him into a cafe in Buenos Aires, Argentina, called Petit Colon, French translation for the Little Colonist or Little Settler.
When criticism of the offending ad began, Volkswagen took to Instagram to say the ethnicities of the people shown are irrelevant, and it was “surprised and shocked that our Instagram story could be so misunderstood.”
“We posted a racist advertising video on Volkswagen’s Instagram channel,” Jürgen Stackmann, the company’s head of sales and marketing and Elke Heitmülle in charge of diversity, said this week in a post to social media.
There were a number of people who said they wouldn’t take Volkswagen’s apology, and the ad getting past so many people shows a lack of diversity in the company
“Anyone involved should be fired immediately, as they obviously lack any common sense or cultural awareness,” one person tweeted.
The National Football League has announced there will be no live national anthem performances this season due to the coronavirus pandemic. According to Michael McCarthy of Front Office Sports, the NFL will not hold any live performances of the national anthem this season and the league may also reduce the presence of military and police […]
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Measures to combat the novel coronavirus in Cameroon are triggering an avalanche of criticism in one of the countries most affected by the pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa.
With late border closures, no containment period, bars, restaurants and discotheques remaining open, masks imposed late, schools and universities reopening prematurely, Yaoundé seemed to stall and then sail on sight, suggesting that its authorities did not take the danger of the Covid-19 seriously when many other African countries imposed radical measures very early on.
President Paul Biya, who has been in power for nearly four decades, only appeared publicly on television on 19 May, pressured by the opposition and even the WHO, after more than two months of deafening silence. Meanwhile, all his African peers very early on, publicly at least, took up the torch of the fight against the virus.
In less than three months, the number of reported cases rose from one to more than 6,500 in early June, with more than 200 deaths out of a population of more than 25 million.
“We are seeing a particularly serious progression of the epidemic. It’s extremely serious,” Professor Eugène Sobngwi, vice-president of the scientific council at the health ministry, told the press on 24 May, brandishing the risk that Cameroon could become “the laughing stock of the world”.
The assessments “should not alarm us because so far the government has been in control of the situation,” Health Minister Manaouda Malachie replied on state radio on 1 June, also in response to countless worries and criticisms on social networks.
This progress is the result of the government’s “calamitous management” of the pandemic, although Albert Ze, a Cameroonian economist specialising in health issues, told AFP that, “we missed the opportunity to contain the virus from the outset.
Cameroon did not close its land, air and sea borders until 18 March, 12 days after the first “imported” case and weeks after many other African countries. It limited the number of people allowed in the gatherings to 50, while others set it at 10.
Other restrictive measures, such as distancing on public transport and closing bars and restaurants, had to wait until mid-March as well, but only after 6 pm.
To date, no general containment has been imposed, as in countless countries across the continent and around the world.
The impact of these measures was however “immediate, and Cameroonians understood that the problem was major,” said Professor Yap Boum II, epidemiologist and head of a Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) research centre in Yaoundé.
“The compulsory wearing of masks reinforced this approach,” but more than a month after the start of the pandemic. Although the spread of the virus was progressing, it was “controlled” at the time, the epidemiologist added.
Nightclubs open
Until 30 April, when the government unexpectedly eased these restrictions, bars, restaurants and discos were allowed to reopen after 6 p.m., and measures to distance public transport were eased.
This “led to an almost to
ROME, Italy (AFP) - Nearly one in nine people in the world are going hungry, with the novel coronavirus pandemic exacerbating already worsening trends this year, according to a United Nations report published Monday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people seeking U.S. unemployment aid rose slightly last week to 870,000, a historically high figure that shows that the viral pandemic is still squeezing restaurants, airlines, hotels and many other businesses six months after it first erupted. The figure coincides with evidence that some newly laid-off Americans are facing […]
How Dental Offices Are Protecting Patients And Staff During The Pandemic
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It’s not exactly business as usual for the dental industry – or patients – as offices reopen for routine care amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
“Dentists have always prioritized safety, but now we’ve significantly ramped up our precautions and standard practices because we want both patients and workers to feel comfortable during a time of great uncertainty,” says Dr. Kyle Bogan (www.drkylebogan.com), a general dentist and speaker on workplace culture.
Dr. Bogan points out some concerns of patients and dental staffs and new protocols being implemented as offices reopen:
Pre-screening patients.
“It forces dental staff to treat every patient as if they have the virus,” Dr. Bogan says.
Dr. Bogan says that staff can allay patients’ fears by informing them of all the new safety procedures their office is taking.
SACRAMENTO In Sacramento County, there were 5,570 homeless people accounted for and living on the streets, according to a 2019 Point-In-Time Homeless Count study conducted every two years. The study revealed that of the overall 5,570 people living on the streets, nearly 4,000 were tagged as “unsheltered” or living in unsanitary conditions such as []
Movement and trade restrictions triggered by the virus have not only impacted how we operate in Somalia but they may also drive up the number of people in need of emergency food and livelihoods support.
It's over 100 percent greater than hunger figures in an average year, and the highest level of humanitarian need in Somalia since July 2017, when the country was at the the height of a severe drought.
We're also expecting that measures taken to curb the spread of COVID-19 in Somalia will likely cause a 20 to 30 percent decline in income among poor urban households and internally displaced people, and a 20 to 50 percent increase in imported food prices.
Since mid-March when the COVID-19 emergency started in Somalia, FAO has transferred $4 million to 200,000 people safely through the Mobile Money program.
In total there are over 350,000 households, comprising more than 2.1 million people, registered in FAO's Mobile Money platform in Somalia, which means we can quickly scale up to reach those in need as the current crisis develops.
