COVID-19

Teachers in Kenya have been urged to go for Covid-19 inoculation as schools reopens following a one-week break. Speaking on Monday in Nairobi during the launch of a survey on teacher preparedness for school reopening in 2021, Teachers…
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Kenya’s Ministry of Health has announced 787 new Covid-19 cases raising the total confirmed cases to 195,898. The new cases were found from 6892 samples analyzed in the last 24 hours, bringing the cumulative tests to 20,081502. Out…
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The Ministry of Health has recorded 503 new Covid-19 cases from 4060 samples analyzed in the last 24 hours. Four hundred seventy-two are Kenyans and 31 foreigners from the new infections, with 251 males and 252 females. In terms of…
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Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has issued a stern warning to Lagosians that the state is experiencing what “appears to be the start of a potential 3rd wave of the COVID-19 pandemic”. There has been a spike in hospital…
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On Tuesday, July 6, Kenya recorded 400 new Covid-19 cases bring the total number of confirmed cases to 186,453. The new cases were found from 5068 samples tested in the last 24 hours, meaning the East African country’s cumulative tests…
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A 64-year-old woman committed suicide on Monday morning at Kenya's AIC Kijabe Hospital after being diagnosed with Covid-19. A source from the central Kenyan hospital who spoke to the Standard Gazette said the deceased was admitted at…
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has issued a warning stating that Africa is facing a fast-surging third wave of COVID-19 pandemic, with cases spreading more rapidly and projected to soon overtake the peak of the second wave the…
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Kenya had tested 1,866,825 people for the coronavirus as of Sunday, announced the Ministry of Health (MoH). The East African nation has been slow in testing its citizens due to shortages of testing kits, with many public hospitals…
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Indian villagers built a shrine in honour of “goddess corona”, offering her prayers in the hope that divine intervention can eradicate the deadly coronavirus. Corona goddess Devotees in Shuklapur village, in the northern state of…
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A Pakistan province said Friday it will block the mobile sim card of anti-vaxxers, in the latest move to penalise the unvaccinated in a country where only a fraction of the population has been inoculated. It comes after Sindh province…
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