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Kiambu police arrest 4 prison officers suspected of conning 2 people out of Sh2.1m under the pretence they'd secure the duo admission at Kiganjo Police College.
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.
Virginia reported more than 1,500 new coronavirus cases again Thursday, continuing a recent surge in cases after months of relative steadiness.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — Former Amazon employee Chris Smalls and his attorneys, National Bar Association President C.K. Hoffler and famed Civil Rights Lawyer Michael Sussman, detailed the lawsuit which seeks unspecified punitive damages against the tech giant, during a call with members of the press and media, including the Washington Post, which is owned by Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has issued an order to allow some inmates to be released early under certain conditions to help slow the spread of the novel coronavirus, similar to what he did in April.
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Next-level SUV: The Audi Q7 has just undergone an all-round update – both visually and technically.
BBC Africa Eye - Peter Murimi, Joel Gunter and Tom Watson: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 16 November 2020: Babies are being stolen to order in Kenya to feed a thriving black market. Africa Eye infiltrated the trafficking rings selling children for as little as £300. Somewhere, Rebecca's son is 10. (Photo [Read More]
The Washington Football Team and Baltimore Ravens will play at home Sunday without allowing fans to attend, a decision both organizations made based on the surging number of coronavirus cases in Maryland and the D.C. metropolitan area.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam has issued a new set of coronavirus-related restrictions that include limiting the number of people attending public gatherings to 25, as well as the 10 p.m. closing of public bars.
[Capital FM] NAIROBI, Kenya Nov, 17 - The Ministry of Health has announced 925 more coronavirus cases picked from a sample size of 5,559, representing a 16.6 positivity rate.
Thanksgiving trips and family gatherings are likely to be smaller and curtailed this year as the nation’s governors issue travel warnings to dampen the spread of the coronavirus.
Clark Atlanta University, Morehuse College and Spelman College plans to maintain the health and safety of students, faculty and staff with a fraction of each school's population expected to arrive on campus in February.
Quinci LeGardye | California Black Media The first round of economic impact payments funded by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act, or the CARES Act, has been opened to a new group of Americans. Incarcerated individuals can now apply to receive their stimulus payments of up to $1200. According to a June report […]
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Nadine M. Melhem, PhD, MPH The year 2020 has been difficult for most people in the United States. The stressors have been both universal and personal, yet heartbreaking and confusing. The COVID-19 global pandemic, the especially high mortality rate in the US, economic losses and individual everyday stressors could affect people’s mental health. No matter … Continued
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The coronavirus pandemic has killed more than 1 million people across the globe and infected more than 1 million in the U.S.
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According … the right thing? African Americans are disproportionately incarcerated, … counties with larger African American populations, Reinhart said … that hyper-policing African American communities is …
Texas on Wednesday became the first state with more than 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, and California closed in on that mark as a surge of infections engulfs the country from coast to coast. In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said all restaurants, bars and gyms statewide will have to close at 10 p.m. starting […]
by Glenn Ellis I am glad Covid has “laid bare” structural racism and inequalities in healthcare and health for some folks. Welcome. We are happy to have you join us in the fight of our lives. -Dr. Robin Stevens- (TriceEdneyWire.com)—Throughout modern U.S. medical history, official reports and statistics have documented, and confirmed, the disproportionate burden … Continued
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By Donald James Like many cities across America, Detroit has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic that began to wreak havoc on businesses and economic development in March of this year. Unlike other American cities, however, Detroit, in 2013, filed for a devastating bankruptcy, making it the largest municipality in American history to do so. … Continued
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Unfortunately, America’s leaders, more accurately, the president of the United States, has placed his foot on the necks of Americans with his refusal to concede and accept the results of the recent election.
The COVID-19 outbreak has changed the reality of life. However, the true pandemic is seeing the widening gap in the quality of life, throughout underserved communities. Many Angeleno households and communities across the globe have been left vulnerable during the largest health crisis the world has seen in present day.
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Sudan's rebel leaders returned to the Sudanese capital of Khartum on Sunday, signifying a major step toward implementing a peace agreement with the Sudan transitional government .
A deal which is widely expected to end the country's decades-long civil wa r.
Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo , vice chairman of the Sovereign Council as well as head of the Sudanese government's delegation for peace negotiations, went to the airport to welcome the rebel leaders.
\" We are willing to work hard to overcome all difficulties, maintain the comprehensive and long-lasting peace and stability of Sudan, and work together with all partners in the transition period for the future of Sudan ,\" the vice-chairman said .
Crowds of local residents also held celebration events across Sudan to mark this progress.
The Sudanese government signed on October 3rd a comprehensive peace deal with opposition groups in the South Sudanese capital city of Juba to end decades of conflict in Darfur , Blue Nile and South Kordofan regions.
The agreement involves sharing of power and wealth, transitional justice, security, internally displaced persons ( IDPs ) and refugees. Both sides also agreed to facilitate access to humanitarian aid to displaced civilians.
After months of closure, schools have reopened Thursday in Senegal.
Unicef had deplored in early October that only one country in three from West and Central Africa has managed to reopen its schools for the start of the school year 2020-2021 on schedule.
Most of the students sitting Thursday in groups under the courtyard of an elementary school in Mbao, a suburb of Dakar, were not wearing masks. On the contrary, in a high school in Yoff, a working class neighborhood of the capital, most were wearing masks.
But these same students passed through the doors of the school without any provision to keep them at a distance from each other.
Four million students, from primary to secondary school, were expected to return to classes, but a number of them delayed their return, a common practice even outside of a pandemic.
Schools were closed in March after the first case of Covid-19 in the country. Only 500,000 students in examination classes had returned to school by June.
Since then, the pandemic appears to have been contained at low levels. Senegal reported 15,744 cases and 326 deaths.
Economic activity, which has been severely affected, is slowly resuming its course. But there is also a slackening of daily vigilance.
\"We have defined a health protocol with the Ministry of Health for the compulsory wearing of masks - except in preschool - hand washing, physical distancing,\" Ministry of Education spokesman Mohamed Moustapha Diagne said.
The authorities also assured that masks and gel would be transported for schools to remote localities.
\"We have not yet received a supply of masks and hydro-alcoholic gel,\" an official of the school in Mbao said anonymously.
\"Until last night, some schools in inland localities had not received their equipment in masks and gel,\" said a teacher union official, Abdoulaye Ndoye.
The start of the school year is also undermined by a financial dispute between private schools, which accommodate nearly a third of students, and parents.
Private schools demanded that parents pay for two to three months of schooling between April and June. Some parents reported in the press that they did not owe anything because classes were closed.
\"We recommend discussion between the schools and the families,\" said the ministry spokesman, assuring that the ministry had \"no legal basis to intervene\".
\"Only the state can settle this issue. It must have the political courage to do so,\" replied trade unionist Ndoye.
Rep. Cedric Richmond said Tuesday that a deal for a new coronavirus stimulus package needs to be worked out by Christmas instead of waiting until President-elect Joe Biden takes over the White House in January.
With only two weeks until Thanksgiving, many families are preparing for a safe and healthy Turkey Day. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging everyone to follow safety guidelines and keep gatherings small. The CDC offered the following statement to Americans hoping to share in holiday festivities with loved ones: … Continued
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US biotech firm Moderna on Monday announced its experimental vaccine against Covid-19 was almost 95 percent effective, marking a major breakthrough in the quest to end the pandemic.
Moderna released early results from a clinical trial with more than 30,000 participants, after American pharmaceutical company Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech last week said their vaccine was 90 percent effective.
The news came as virus infections surged across Europe and the United States.
Both vaccines are based on new technology that uses synthetic versions of molecules called \"messenger RNA\" to hack into human cells, and effectively turn them into vaccine-making factories.
\"This positive interim analysis from our Phase 3 study has given us the first clinical validation that our vaccine can prevent COVID-19 disease, including severe disease,\" said Moderna CEO Stephane Bancel.
\"Today's news of a second vaccine is further reason to feel hopeful,\" tweeted President-elect Joe Biden, but he cautioned that its widespread distribution was months away.
\"Until then, Americans need to continue to practice social-distancing and mask-wearing to get the virus under control,\" he said.
Moderna plans to submit applications for emergency approval around the world within weeks, and says it expects to have approximately 20 million doses ready to ship in the US by the end of the year.
The company, which has received $2 billion from the US government under \"Operation Warp Speed,\" added it is on track to manufacture between 500 million to a billion doses globally in 2021.
Global infections from Covid-19 have soared past 54 million with more than 1.3 million deaths since the virus emerged in China late last year.
China and Russia also say that they have manufactured effective Covid-19 vaccines.
China is developing several vaccines, of which five are undergoing large-scale global trials
Questions remain
The promising results of both vaccines are seen as a validation for mRNA technology, which has never before been brought to regulatory approval.
It works by providing human cells with the genetic instructions to make a surface protein of the coronavirus, which trains the immune system to recognize the real virus.
Making a traditional vaccine is a longer process that normally involves developing a weakened form of a pathogen.
It is not yet clear how long lasting the protection will be from either the Moderna or Pfizer vaccines, nor how well they work for the elderly, the age-group at highest risk from Covid-19.
Another open question is whether they stop people who are exposed to the virus from transmitting it on to the other people, even though they may be themselves protected from the disease.
Implementation of another month-long lockdown in the UK has forced several airlines to cancel flights to South Africa.
