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Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) – A third patient cured of coronavirus (Covid-19) has left the hospital of Sousse (140 km southern Tunis), the Health regional director for the city, Sami Reguig, announced on Monday evening. A patient at the city of Gafsa (southwest Tunisia) and another, a Romanian, were earlier cured of [...]

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Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso on Monday recorded 24 new positive cases of the coronavirus disease, taking to 246 the overall number of persons infected in the country, official sources told PANA. The situation of the coronavirus disease in Burkina Faso as at 29 March 2020 is as followed: [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The Congolese government has announced that two cases of COVID-19 infection have been cured out of the 19 confirmed cases in the country, the minister of Health and Population, Jacqueline Lydia Mikolo, said in Brazzaville. ‘’On 29 March, two cases out of the 19 contaminated in the [...]

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Khartoum, Sudan (PANA) - The Heads of State and Government of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on Monday decided to bring together their efforts for staving off COVID-19 and share experience and mobilize resources for mitigating the impact of the pandemic. They convened a Video Conference to deliberate on the [...]

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Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (PANA) - The Abidjan-based stock market (BRVM) closed Monday 30 March, 2020, trading down, with the BRVM 10 index dropping from 126.16 points to 125.93 points or a 0.18 percent decrease while the BRVM Composite index lost 0.44 percent to 134.65 points as against 135.24 points previously. The volume of transactions [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) – The first day of the lockdown in Ghana passed off successfully as most residents in the declared areas complied with the directives to stay home. Most streets in Accra, Tema, Kumasi and Kasoa in the Central Region remained deserted while the main markets were evacuated and sprayed [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Kenya's worst case scenario analysis shows the possibility of the coronavirus infections hitting 10,000 by May and 5,000 infections by the first week of April, ministry of health officials said on Monday.   Cabinet Secretary for Health Mutahi Kagwe, said the status of infections has now changed from [...]

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Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta on Monday painted a gloomy picture of impact on the country's economy in the face of COVID-19 saying it will cost S9.505 billion Ghana cedis, or 2.5 percent of the revised GDP. He told Parliament that a recalibration of the 2020 fiscal [...]

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Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Botswana has registered its first positive cases of corona virus, Health minister Lemogang Kwape told the nation on Monday through the national broadcaster – Botswana Television (BTV).   Dr. Kwape said three confirmed positive cases of coronavirus have been registered.   Two patients were coming from Thailand while one came [...]

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Banjul, Gambia (PANA) -  President Adama Barrow has expressed optimism that The Gambia's proposed Constitution, premised on strong foundations and all-inclusiveness, will provide a safe haven for all citizens to enjoy the path to peace, freedom and prosperity.   The President made the remark on Monday when he received the draft Constitution [...]

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Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) - The business plan validation committee for the Commercial Agriculture Development Support Project (Pdac) has validated 782 new business plans in Brazzaville for a total amount of 12,669 billion 280,982 CFA francs, PANA learned on Monday from the Congolese Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock.   The business plans, of [...]

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Port-Louis, Mauritius (PANA) – Mauritian Prime Minister, Mr Pravind Jugnauth, on Monday announced that the sanitary curfew which started on 23 March will be extended till 15 April 2020, following an increase in the number of Covid-19 cases which now stands at 128 with three deaths reported, the Government Information [...]

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) - Member states of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) have agreed to forge a joint approach to curb the spread of Coronavirus disease.   The Heads of State of Kenya, Uganda, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Sudan, Somalia and South Sudan held a teleconference on Monday and discussed the challenges the [...]

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Dar es Salaam, Tanzania (PANA) – Tanzania has confirmed five more cases of Covid-19, taking to 19 the number of people who tested positive for the deadly virus. Health Minister Ummy Mwalimu announced on Monday that two of the five new cases are from Zanzibar Island, while three are from the [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Director General of the Libyan National Center for Disease Control, Dr Badreddine Al-Najjar, has revealed that work is underway to strengthen the surveillance and investigation network for combating the coronavirus in the country .   "Surveillance and investigation teams aim to track and treat cases of Coronavirus, with [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libyan Vice President of the Presidential Council of the Government of National Accord (GNA), Ahmed Maitig on Monday spoke with the Italian Ambassador to Libya, Giuseppe Puccini, on the development of the war in the capital, Tripoli and the military situation in the clash zones.   Repercussions of [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The United States  has announced that it will provide $6 million in additional humanitarian assistance to Libya in response to efforts to fight the coronavirus pandemic, according to a news release from the American Embassy in Libya. The U.S. embassy said "the money will help health officials [...]

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Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Niger's economic growth rate is likely to slow down from 6.9% to 4.1% due to the coronavirus pandemic, President Issoufou Mahamadou, has cautioned in a message to the nation.   He said that without price controls, inflation would rise from 4.4% to 7.9% and tax revenues will slump [...]

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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday addressed the nation as the confirmed cases of Covid-19 reached 1,280. The country is on the third day of a 21-day national lockdown. “It is important that this lockdown and all other emergency measures are both strictly adhered to [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Malian armed forces neutralized five terrorists on Sunday in Tiguila town of Mondoro in the Mopti region of central Mali, PANA learned from security sources on Monday. Malian soldiers who were ambushed while escorting election materials also recovered motorcycles, weapons, ammunition, talkies and rockets from the terrorists, [...]

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Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali's health ministry on Monday announced five new cases of coronavirus, including four in Bamako and one in Kalanbancoro, in the region of Koulikoro near the Malian capital.   The new cases bring to 25 the total number of cases detected in Mali. According to the ministry, a coronavirus-related [...]

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Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - The Libyan Artificial River Project Implementation and Management Authority announced on Monday the interruption of drinking water supply in Tripoli and surrounding areas due to the cut in electricity supply to wells of the East field of Hassouna Sahal al-Jafara system. "The electricity was restored again a [...]

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Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded 20 new confirmed cases of COVID-19 (coronavirus) bringing the total number to 162, the ministry of Public Health and Social Action has announced. It said 28 patients have been cured and 134 are still under treatment, including two serious cases, one of who is on [...]

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