Login to BlackFacts.com using your favorite Social Media Login. Click the appropriate button below and you will be redirected to your Social Media Website for confirmation and then back to Blackfacts.com once successful.
Enter the email address and password you used to join BlackFacts.com. If you cannot remember your login information, click the “Forgot Password” link to reset your password.
RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil said Saturday that more than 500,000 people in the country are confirmed to have died from COVID-19 since the start of the pandemic. The nation of 210 million people has been reporting an average of more than 2,000...
South Africa is one of the hardest-hit countries in Africa with over 740,000 infections.
The country recorded 60 more virus-related deaths on Wednesday, bringing the death toll to 20,011.
(Trinidad Guardian) T&T yesterday recorded its second deadliest day since the COVID-19 pandemic began, with six deaths in 24 hours.
The article Trinidad records six COVID deaths in 24 hours appeared first on Stabroek News.
The Ministry of Health recorded ten more deaths and 558 new covid19 cases on Thursday.
The death toll has risen to 341 and there are 6,998 active cases.
In its 4 pm update, the ministry said 5,887 patients are at home in self-isolation, 412 patients in hospital and 141 people in step-down facilities waiting to be discharged.
There are 324 people in state quarantine.
The country has had 18,227 cases since its first case on March 12, 2020. Of this 10,888 people have recovered.
Trinidad and Tobago began its vaccination programme on April 6 and since then 61,806 people have been vaccinated. The ministry said 1,179 people have been fully vaccinated.
Over the last four months, TT has received 100,000 Sinopharm vaccine donations from the China Government, 40,000 AstraZeneca vaccines from India, 2,000 AstraZeneca vaccines from Barbados, and 16,000 AstraZeneca vaccines from St Vincent and the Grenadines.
It also received two batches each of 33,600 AstraZeneca vaccines from the 100,800 doses ordered through the Covax facility.
The post Ten more deaths, 558 new covid19 cases appeared first on Trinidad and Tobago Newsday.
“You wouldn’t tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming….?” Michael Gove Ancient kings of Siam (present-day Thailand) would sometimes give a white elephant to their enemies. This apparent ‘Royal gift’ meant doom for the recipient because white elephants were considered sacred and needed special care, were not […]
The post Talking Blues: Heroes and heroines amid leaders fixated on white elephants appeared first on Malawi 24.
The United Nations has called for a probe into one of the deadliest police raids in Brazil's Rio de Janeiro which killed 28 people.
[ANGOP] Luanda -- Confirmed new cases of covid-19 in Angola amounted to 108, three deaths and 101 recoveries in the last 24 hours, health officials have reported.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) - Brazil reported 56,773 additional confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in the past 24 hours, and 1,074 deaths from COVID-19, the health ministry said yesterday.
The article Brazil reports more than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths for third straight day appeared first on Stabroek News.
[Nation] Health officials in Migori County have renewed calls for adherence to Covid-19 rules after 10 inmates from Kehancha GK Prison tested positive for the virus on Wednesday evening.
By Julie Watson and Anita Snow The Associated Press In a Washington, D.C., suburb, Black and Latino barbers are busting myths about the coronavirus vaccine while clipping hair. Across the country, a university researcher in Phoenix teamed up with a company behind comic books fighting Islamic extremism to produce dance-inducing animated stories in Spanish that […]
The post Barbers, artists help defy vaccine myths for people of color appeared first on Afro.
President Donald Trump is facing a barrage of calls to permit potentially life-saving transition talks between his health officials and incoming President-elect Joe Biden's aides on a fast-worsening pandemic he is continuing to ignore in his obsessive effort to discredit an election that he clearly lost. The increasingly urgent pleas are coming from inside his administration, the President-elect's team and […]
When Ebola hit the city of Mbandaka in northwest Congo in 2018, health officials had to act fast - the city was connected via regular boat service to thesprawling capital Kinshasa, where the deadly virus could spread out of control.
While the CDC said there should be enough doses for as many as 20 million people to receive vaccination by the end of December, health officials expect a much larger supply in the coming months. Still, with a justified distrust of unproven vaccines, and a perceived limited participation by African Americans in clinical the trials that lead to the development of the COVID-19 vaccine, many question whether African Americans will accept vaccination.
The post Will The Black Community Get Shut Out From COVID Vaccination? appeared first on The Seattle Medium.
South Africa recorded 106 more Covid-19-related deaths, bringing the death toll closer to 20 000.
… director for the Partnership of African American Churches, a statewide nonprofit community …
Heavy rain in south Trinidad coupled with confusion at some health centres on Wednesday, saw many elderly people sitting in the rain hoping to get their first jab of the covid19 Sinopharm vaccine.
Several videos began circulating on social media showing people sheltering with umbrellas on the roadside outside the La Romaine health centre.
But by mid-morning, the rains had stopped, and only four people were waiting under a tent hoping to get inside. Some left voluntarily, and others were told they were ineligible.
Robert Smith, 60, of Duncan Village in San Fernando said he has been trying for four days to get vaccinated.
“Yesterday, when I was here, they took my name and other information. They told me to come back today. I am here again and now they are saying the vaccines are for 65 and over. I am waiting to see if I would still get through,” Smith said.
Alexis Teesdale, 65, said he visited the centre several times before and gave his information, including a phone contact.
“They keep saying someone would call me. No one has called me, so I came here. I am waiting because they (health officials) called out some names, and many of those people had left,\" he said.
At the Ste Madeleine health centre, many people gathered outside the gate from early in the morning under overcast skies.
Some of them said they had “regular clinics,” others said they had appointments for their second dose of the vaccine, and the rest were trying to get their first dose as walk-in clients.
The confusion began when some people were told to return another day. A woman identified only as Shantie from New Grant complained there were no effective systems at the vaccination site.
The people were not in lines and the security guard was allowing people inside in batches. Some people who came late were getting ahead over those who arrived earlier, Newsday was told.
A woman from Debe said, “I came with my husband who is 68, and he is waiting to see if he would get an appointment. We have no order here. They were allowing people inside by name initially, then they started to allow people inside randomly.”
Many people were disgruntled and complained that there was no physical distancing.
Later on Wednesday, without identifying the names of health centres, the South-West Regional Health Authority (SWRHA) noted the videos and pictures circulating on social media of people who appeared to be 65 and over outside a few of its health facilities.
“While we strive for an efficient system overlay for the vaccination process, these valued citizens were without confirmed appointments. These people were so advised by our attending staff to resolve the situation,” the SWRHA said in a release.
“We continue to remind that SWRHA will call and schedule appointments for people 65 and over. This process avoids congregation in breach of the current public health regulations.”
The latest walk-in vaccination drive targets people 65 and over to get their first shot of the vaccine.
The post Rain, confusion at vaccine sites in south Trinid
Three Caricom countries registered deaths from the coronavirus over the last 24 hours as regional countries continue to urge citizens to follow the health protocols and guidelines in a bid to curb the spread of the virus.
By Quinci LeGardye | California Black Media More than half of California is now under a regional stay-at-home order. Last week, when the governor announced the impending shutdown, he said health officials had carved the state into five regions. Their goal is to coordinate a broad emergency response that would reach across county lines and […]
South Africa recorded 3 084 new Covid-19 infections by Tuesday and 102 new Covid-19-related deaths, taking the official death toll to 55 976.
