Coronavirus: Rwanda's deaths reach 29
TWA Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A 46-year-old woman and 44-year-old man succumbed to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic here Friday, raising the deaths recorded in Rwanda to [...] Full text...
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Coronavirus: Cases surge invokes strict travel measures in Botswana
DRW Gaborone, Botswana (PANA) - Health authorities in Botswana Friday reverted to strict travel restrictions across the zonal boundaries within the country, as coronavirus (COVID-19) positive [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Libya records 658 new infections
MTA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) – Libya Friday recorded 658 cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) infections, 666 new recoveries and 17 deaths, the National Centre for Disease Control [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Guinea records 44 new confirmed cases
MTA Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Guinea Thursday recorded 44 new confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) following tests carried out on a sample of 795 people, the [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: No new deaths announced Friday in Senegal
MTA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal Friday recorded no new death related to the coronavirus (COVID-19) which has already caused 304 deaths since the appearance of [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: WHO sees social, environmental factors behind Africa’s low infections
AR Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – Coronavirus (COVID-19) transmission in Africa has been marked by relatively fewer infections, which have been on the decline over the past [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Mali records seven new cases
BBA Bamako, Mali (PANA) - Mali recorded seven new cases of Covid-19 on Thursday, according to the Ministry of Health, which also reported nine recoveries indicating [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Nigeria Confirms 125 fresh cases
MON Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) recorded 125 new Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases on Thursday bringing total infections in the country [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Rwanda's cases top 4,789, recoveries hit 3,050
TWA Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda Thursday reported 10 new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and 55 more recoveries, bringing the total caseload of infections to 4,789 while [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Tunisia records six deaths, 826 new infections in 24 hours
MSA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia recorded 826 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) over the past 24 hours, taking the total number of infections to 13,305 [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Tunisia records 826 new confirmed cases
MTA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia Wednesday recorded 826 new confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), the largest in a day since the appearance of the disease [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: 535 new infections detected in Libya
MTA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has recorded 535 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) infections out of 2,783 samples tested in the last 24 hours, the [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Rwanda's caseload increases to 4,779
TWA Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The number of COVID-19 cases in Rwanda has increased by 41 over the last 24 hours, with 4 new recoveries, the [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Tunisia records 1,219 new confirmed cases
BBA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia has recorded 1,219 new confirmed cases of coronavirus (Covid-19), bringing to 5,581 the total number of infections recorded in the [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Senegal records one death, 100 recoveries
BBA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded on Thursday one coronavirus-related death, bringing to 304 the number of patients who have succumbed to the pandemic [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Burkina Faso records 22 new virus cases
BBA Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) -Burkina Faso recorded on Wednesday 22 new confirmed cases of coronavirus, bringing to 1,929 the number of people infected since the [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Nigeria reports 111 new cases, total now 57,724
MON Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has reported 111 new cases of coronavirus in the country on Wednesday.
NCDC said that [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Countries urged to act against pandemic ‘infodemic’
AR New York, US (PANA) - The UN and partners have urged countries to take urgent action to address what they have described as the “infodemic” [...] Full text...
With lessons from Ebola outbreak, DRC moved swiftly to curb coronavirus spread - Tshisekedi
AR New York, US (PANA) - Learning its lessons from the Ebola outbreak, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) took swift and decisive measures to contain [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: The curve of infections continues to rise with more than 1200 new cases and 174 deaths
MTA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - Tunisia has recorded 1,219 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) infections out of 5,581 tests carried out on 21-22 September, bringing the [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: The number of infections in Libya hits 30,097
MTA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has a total of 30,097 coronavirus (COVID-19) infections after 651 new cases were recorded from 2,876 tests in the last [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Senegal records one new death, 36 new cases, 97 new recoveries
BBA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal recorded here Wednesday one new coronavirus (COVID-19)-related death to bring to 303 the number of patients who have died from [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Guinean government relaxes health measures in some sectors
BBA Conakry, Guinea (PANA) -The Guinean government has from Tuesday eased health restrictions in the transport, tourism, sports and culture sectors, a statement from the presidency [...] Full text...
How Africa’s health systems gain from polio eradication experience
AR Brazzaville, Congo (PANA) – The polio response has brought many skilled technicians into Africa’s health systems as the Global Polio Eradication Initiative (GPEI) paved the [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Rwanda's total infections reach 4,738
TWA Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda has reported 16 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours bringing the total infections in the country to 4,738 [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Tobacco responsible for 20% of deaths from coronary heart disease - WHO
AR Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Every year, 1.9 million people die from tobacco-induced heart disease, according to a new brief released by the World Health Organization [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Nigeria records 176 new infections
MON Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – Nigeria recorded 176 new Coronavirus (COVID-19) cases on Tuesday just as the country's Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) warned that the [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: UN marks International Day of Sign Languages in midst of pandemic
AR New York, US (PANA) - This year’s International Day of Sign Languages is being commemorated in the midst of a pandemic that has “disrupted and [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: UN chief warns pandemic is ‘dress rehearsal’ for challenges ahead
AR New York, US (PANA) - UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday appealed for global solidarity to overcome the COVID-19, and again called for a global [...] Full text...
Hospitals ground to a halt as Ghana’s health workers strike
WA Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Hospitals in Ghana virtually ground to a halt following an industrial action by the Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Association (GRNMA) [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: South African President warns pandemic has set back African development
AR New York, US (PANA) - Despite the continent-wide approach taken by African countries to combat COVID-19, the pandemic has set back their development aspirations, South [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Tunisia records 528 new confirmed cases Tuesday
MSA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian ministry of Health Tuesday recorded 528 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) infections and 164 deaths during the past 24 [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Libya's total is 29,446 confirmed cases
MTA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - Libya has recorded 650 new confirmed cases of coronavirus after testing 2,640 samples, bringing to 29,446 the number of COVID-19 infections [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Gabon sees decline in new infections
BBA Libreville, Gabon (PANA) - Gabonese health authorities on Tuesday reported a sharp decline in new cases of coronavirus in the last 72 hours, as the [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Guinea records 19 new confirmed cases
BBA Conakry, Guinea (PANA) - Guinea recorded on Monday 19 new positive cases of coronavirus, following tests carried out on a sample of 336 people, a [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Senegal records no virus-related death but 21 new cases, 163 recoveries
BBA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) -The Ministry of Health and Social Action mentioned no coronavirus-related death during its daily press briefing on Tuesday on the evolution of [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Nigeria records 195 new infections
MON Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – As Nigeria records 195 new Coronavirus (COVID-19) infections, Enugu State in the southeast of the country for the first time tops [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Solution to global crisis in sight, ‘we sink or we swim together’ – WHO chief
AR Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - COVID-19 is an “unprecedented global crisis that demands an unprecedented global response”, the chief of the UN health agency said on [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Rwanda's deaths reach 27
TWA Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda registered one death from coronavirus (COVID-19) in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 27, the ministry of [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Burkina Faso records 50 new confirmed cases
MSA Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso Monday recorded 50 new confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), taking to 1,896 the total number of people infected [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Niger calls on the international community to support badly afftected countries
MTA Niamey, Niger (PANA) - Niger's Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, Kalla Hankouraou, on Monday called on the international community to show more solidarity towards [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Tunisia's cases hit 10,000
MTA Tunis, Tunisia (PANA) - The Tunisian Ministry of Health announced on Monday in its daily bulletin that the 6,332 tests carried out on September 18 [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Burkina Faso records 30 new cases
MTA Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (PANA) - Burkina Faso registered 30 new cases of coronavirus on Sunday, bringing to 1,446 the number of people infected since the [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: 847 new infections detected in Libya
MTA Tripoli, Libya (PANA) - A total of 847 new cases of coronavirus infections have been recorded in Libya out of 3,598 samples tested in the [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Burundi recorded one case of infection in one week
BBA Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) -Burundi has recorded only one case of coronavirus infection out of 2,254 samples tested in the past week, the Ministry of Public [...] Full text...
Nurses, midwives in Ghana embark on strike
MA Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Nurses, midwives, physician assistants and anaesthetists in public health facilities in Ghana on Monday began a strike to press demands for better [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Senegal records 24 new cases, no death
BBA Dakar, Senegal (PANA) - Senegal has recorded 24 new infections of coronavirus but no death, the Ministry of Health and Social Action announced on Monday [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Nigeria records 97 new cases
MON Abuja, Nigeria (PANA) – The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) says that Nigeria recorded 97 new coronavirus (COVID-19) infections on Sunday, bringing the total to [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Number of cases jumps to 4,711 in Rwanda
TWA Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The number of COVID-19 cases has jumped to 4,711 after 22 people tested positive in the last 24 hours, the ministry [...] Full text...
Coronavirus: Ghana extends mandatory wearing of mask until 14 December
MA Accra, Ghana (PANA) - Ghana's president Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has extended, by Executive Instrument, the mandatory wearing of face masks by another three months [...] Full text...