Coronavirus outbreak
Ugandan doctor and wife die of COVID-19 within week of each other
Dr. Gelasius Mukasa, a pediatrician, has succumbed to COVID-19 a week after his wife's passing. According to Dr. Sabrına Kitaka,...
Rwanda reinstates lockdown, curfew as COVID-19 cases rise
Cabinet in Rwanda has announced new COVID-19 restrictions in order to contain further spread of the Coronavirus following a spontaneous...
England and Scotland begin new lockdowns as Covid-19 cases rise
People in all of England and most of Scotland must now stay at home except for a handful of permitted...
South Sudan requests five million Covid-19 vaccine doses
South Sudan’s Ministry of Health says it has requested five million doses of Covid-19 vaccine as the country continues to...
Namibia postpones reopening of schools
The Namibian government has announced new dates for the reopening of schools. Pupils were scheduled to resume face to face...
Museveni, Ministry of Health on different sides of COVID-19 vaccine
President Museveni and the Ministry of Health have found themselves on very conflicting sides regarding the progress of a Ugandan-...
Covid: Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine rollout to begin
First doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus jab are to be given as the UK accelerates its vaccine programme to tackle...
Trying to understand the new COVID-19 variant that could mess up 2021
Does it spread more easily? Make people sicker? Mean that treatments and vaccines won't work? Questions are multiplying as fast...
Nearly 500,000 in Wuhan may have had Covid-19 virus, says study
Almost 5% of the people in the Chinese city of Wuhan may have been infected with Covid-19, a study by...
Algerian president returns home after 2 months of Covid-19 treatment
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune has returned home after receiving coronavirus treatment in Germany for two months, state television reports. Mr...
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Minister Kasirivu survives assassination attempt near his home
The Albertine Police has launched investigations in circumstances under which the state minister for Economic Monitoring Dr. Kasirivu Baltazar Atwooki...