A brief by the World Health Organisation (WHO) has shown that disruptions to women’s health services due to the COVID-19 pandemic may stall progress to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals of equal health in Africa. The WHO Global Pulse Survey on Continuity of Essential Health Services during the COVID-19 pandemic carried out between Nov. and […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic forced 30.4 per cent of local enterprises in Cameroon to resort to social media in the marketing of their products, a new report has shown. According to the just-published report of the National Institute of Statistics (NIS) after an evaluation of the socio-economic impact of the coronavirus in the country in 2021, […]
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Gabon citizens who had been vaccinated between March and July 2021 are to get booster vaccine doses against the COVID-19, authorities have said. The date for the administration of booster vaccine doses is not fixed yet. Prof. Akotet, the President of the National Committee for Vaccination Against the Coronavirus (COPIVAC), announced that only 21.07 per […]
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Anxiety has followed Nigeria’s discovery of its first cases of the Covid-19 Omicron variant, technically known as B.1.1.529 lineage The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), in a statement by Ifedayo Adetifa, its director-general, on Tuesday night, Nov. 30, said the variant was detected in two Nigerians who arrived in the country from South Africa […]
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The Government of the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) says access to its presidency is subject to the respect of a number of conditions spelt out in a service note issued by Florent Ntsiba, Director of Cabinet in the Presidency of the Republic. In the service note issued on Wednesday, Oct. 20, the conditions include the […]
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A workshop to evaluate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and other shocks on food security and sources of living in rural areas opened in the Chadian capital, N’Djamena on Wednesday, Oct. 20. The workshop brings together experts from the Ministry of Agricultural Development, the United Nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) and civil society […]
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In a population of over 200 million people, only 1.1 per cent (2.17 million) of Nigerians have received the full dose of the COVID-19 vaccine. Data from the National Primary Health Care Development Agency (NPHCDA) also shows that over 4.9 million people have received one dose of the jab bringing the total number of vaccinated […]
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Nigerians on social media have reacted to the new UK vaccination policy, which fails to formally recognise Nigeria’s COVID-19 vaccine certificate, a new vaccine policy has revealed. “Such a waste of effort,” A DJ simply known as DJ Obi commented in an Instagram comment section. Another Instagram user, tomvis53 said “why is the government quiet […]
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Gabon has recorded 11 new deaths from COVID-19 in three towns; Libreville, Makokou, and Oyem. According to the country’s National Committee for the Fight (COPIL) Against COVID-19, 304 new positive cases were also recorded between Sept. 27 and 30. A total of 1,522 positive cases were diagnosed within this period which represented an average of […]
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Nigeria recorded 597 new COVID-19 cases reported on Wednesday, Sept. 29, according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC). The Centre said the fresh infections were spread across 18 states including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. Topping the chart, Lagos recorded 126 cases, followed by Rivers with 76 infections. Kwara reported 44 infections, […]
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Nigeria on Monday, Sept. 27, reported 12 deaths and 297 new COVID-19 infections, raising the total confirmed cases to 204,752, according to government data. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) said the fresh infections were spread across 15 states including the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. Rivers State recorded 63 cases, overtaking Lagos State […]
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The government of Gabon is considering re-imposing the 6 p.m. to dawn curfew it imposed at the height of mounting COVID-19 infections last year which was lifted as infections dropped. Dr Guy-Patrick Obiang Ndong, the country’s Minister of Public Health mooted the re-imposition of the curfew during a recent press briefing where he said if […]
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