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Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta has lifted and scaled back some anti-Covid-19 measures, including reopening schools and freeing travel in and out of Nairobi.
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.
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The central English city of Leicester could be the country's first to face a local lockdown due to a rise in coronavirus cases, the UK's Home Secretary Priti Patel said Sunday.
Reports in the Sunday Times newspaper said the Government was set to reimpose strict lockdown rules on Leicester “within the next few days”.
Boris Johnson's Government is set to ease lockdown restrictions from July 4 — despite fears of a second wave of infections— by opening pubs, restaurants and hairdressers among others across England.
“I think nothing would be more damaging for our country, for our economy if we do have a second wave,” Patel said.
More than 43,500 people have died due to the coronavirus in Britain, official figures show.
[Vanguard] As workers continue to lose their jobs, a total of 10,619 ex-employees have been forced to fall back on their pension savings, withdrawing about N5.02 billion in the first quarter of 2021, Q1'21.
Testimonies by over 40 witnesses described the systematic killing of civilians by soldiers in the northern city of Axum, opening fire in the streets and conducting house-to-house raids in a massacre that may amount to a crime against humanity, according to an internal United States government report obtained by The New York Times.
The post Biden Calls For Help In Conflict-torn African Horn appeared first on The Seattle Medium.
Somalia has cut diplomatic relations with neighbouring Kenya, accusing it of meddling in politics as protests and gunfire erupted in the capital Mogadishu over delayed elections.
The Egyptian Drug Authority issued an official license of the Sinopharm Chinese developed coronavirus vaccine for emergency use in Egypt.
The Netcare hospital group has blamed the Delta variant for the increasing the number of hospitalisations in Gauteng.
East African countries have borrowed nearly $2.3 billion new loans in less than three months since reporting the first Covid-19 positive case, adding to the region's mounting debts at a time of shrinking tax revenue.
President John Magufuli has called for cancellation of Tanzania's foreign debts, but Dar es Salaam together with Burundi and South Sudan is yet to announce any new loans during this period.
Rwanda has borrowed $109.4 million from the IMF to smoothen foreign exchange pressures, $14.25 million from the International Development Association (IDA) for its Covid-19 emergency response kitty and $100 million from the World Bank for budget support.
The Bank of Uganda (BoU) says there's a risk of the country sliding into debt repayment crisis due to mounting expenditure pressures linked to the Covid-19 pandemic against the backdrop of a weakening economy and falling revenue collections.
EA governments were already running record high debt levels before the Covid-19 outbreak, with Kenya's total debt soaring above the Ksh6 trillion ($60 billion) mark (over 60 per cent of GDP) while Uganda's provisional total public debt stock as at January 31 2020 stood at Ush49.75 trillion ($13 billion), which is about 36.5 per cent of GDP.
[Monitor] Uganda has recorded 2,542 recoveries and 193 deaths in five days, statistics from the Ministry of Health recorded between June 25 and June 29 indicate.
(NNPA)—Under the direction and management of President Donald Trump and his coronavirus pandemic task force, there has been mass death.
Instead of President Trump’s weekly briefing solidifying and bringing the country together to fight a common enemy, the nation is more divided and broken.
President Trump’s briefings have become a comedy show, where officials tell lies, there’s no coordinated national plan, and made up facts.
As a result of President Trump’s statements, major companies had put out statements to customers to not follow the president’s instructions or advice.
The failure is national, and our president sees the coronavirus pandemic in personal and political terms.
AS several countries ease into relaxing the strict measures taken to contain the dreaded novel coronavirus outbreak, top officials of the World Health Organization (WHO) are urging extreme caution, warning that the volatility of the virus could result in a second peak, long before a second wave, causing further devastation.
“We congratulate countries who have managed to contain and suppress the disease transmission; when we speak about a second wave classically what we often mean is that there will be a first wave and the disease by itself effectively goes to a very low level and then it curves a number of months later.
We cannot make assumptions that just because the disease is on the way down now it's gonna keep going down and then we are going to get a number of months to get ready for a second wave,” the WHO's emergencies chief Dr Michael Ryan told a press briefing in Geneva, Switzerland, yesterday.
We got a second peak, not necessarily a second wave, and therefore I think right now countries in Europe, countries in North America, many other countries around the world and South East Asia have to continue to put in place the public health and social measures, the surveillance measures, the testing measures and a comprehensive strategy to ensure that we continue on a downward trajectory and that we don't have an immediate second peak,” he said.
In the meantime, WHO Head Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said stringency in social and public health measures remain paramount if countries are to overtake the virus and remain in the lead.
South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa on Thursday announced new localized restrictions to stem a resurgence of Covid-19 in the south of the country, amid growing fears new infections could spiral into a second wave.
Authorities in Africa's worst virus-hit country have grown increasingly concerned by cluster outbreaks in the Eastern Cape and Western Cape provinces that flared up last month.
Experts fear the uptick could spread further during the upcoming summer holiday when citizens criss-cross provinces to spend Christmas and New Year with family and friends.
\"We have always known that a second wave of infections is possible in South Africa if we do not take necessary measures,\" Ramaphosa said in an address to the nation on Thursday, noting that \"this virus does not take a holiday\".
South Africa recorded over 4,400 new infections on Wednesday, the highest 24-hour increase since mid-August.
Most of the resurge is driven by infections in the Eastern Cape, particularly in the Nelson Mandela Bay (NMB) municipality, home to the province's largest city of Port Elizabeth.
Ramaphosa said the area had now been declared a \"hotspot\" and subjected to a new set of restrictions.
A stricter 10:00 pm curfew will be imposed - compared to the midnight cut-off time in the rest of the country.
Alcohol sales and consumption will once again be limited to reduce trauma admissions to busy hospitals, and social gatherings capped.
Ramaphosa assured the new measures were not meant to \"punish\" NMB residents but to \"contain the spread of the virus\" and \"save lives\".
He said officials would soon be visiting two other cluster outbreak areas to determine an \"appropriate course of action\".
\"We need to quickly extinguish the flare-ups before they turn into an inferno,\" he added.
A total of 800,872 people are confirmed to have been infected by the virus in South Africa since March. Around 92 per cent of these people have recovered. This is good news. As of today, 21,803 people are known to have died from COVID-19 in South Africa.
— Cyril Ramaphosa 🇿🇦 #StaySafe (@CyrilRamaphosa) December 3, 2020
The president also stressed the importance of keeping the economy open after months of stifling movement restrictions.
He urged citizens not to drop their guard and continue adhering to the health rules, such as wearing face masks and respecting curfew times.
South Africa has recorded just over 800,000 coronavirus infections - more than a third of the cases reported across the African continent - and over 20,000 deaths.
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The average growth in mobile money volumes in the first six months of the year has averaged 28 percent since 2010.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- President Uhuru Kenyatta on Saturday extended the ban on political gatherings until further notice in a move aimed at slowing the spread of COVID-19.
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Overall crime in Birmingham Housing Authority communities has declined nearly 20 percent from this time last year, according to housing officials.
The 19.5 percent drop in overall crime is in part because of collaborative efforts among Birmingham Police Department (BPD), Housing Authority of Birmingham District (HABD) staff and residents, say officials.
“Any drop in crime is good but 19.5 percent is very significant because it shows that positive things are happening,” said Ken Foreman, Public Safety Director, HABD.
Of the 14 HABD housing communities, Elyton Village in West Birmingham, has seen the largest drop in overall crime with a 55 percent decrease.
The public housing community can expect to see a greater community police presence, updated guest list and trespass policies, neighborhood block watch, more security cameras and more community engagement efforts, HABD officials said.
But hospitals in the Indian city of Varanasi had run out of space, oxygen, medicine, tests - everything. 'They told us everywhere was bad and people were lying on the hospital floors, and that there were no beds at all,' the 33-year-old said. His mother died before she could be tested for Covid-19. This week, India's government unveiled a compensation program that would provide 50,000 rupees (about $670) to the families of past and future Covid-19 victims. That's more than […]
[Shabelle] The Somali Ministry of Health on Monday said it's planning to reintroduce COVID-19 restriction measures aimed at containing the spread of the virus amid the resurgence of infections across the country.
Roughly 8,400 new COVID-19 cases among children were recorded last week — the lowest total since the outset of the pandemic in May 2020, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics.
The post Weekly COVID Cases Among Children at Lowest Level Since May 2020: Report appeared first on The Washington Informer.
FINANCE Minister Dr Nigel Clarke has again defended the Government's stewardship o f the economy since 2016, pointing to a 40 per cent drop in the poverty rate between 2015 and 2018 — the lowest in 10 years.
Dr Clarke told the House of Representatives Tuesday that this is also the country's third-lowest poverty rate in 25 years, and that all economic variables were on track prior to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“[The year] 2018 marked the first time that economic output exceeds the pre-recession peak and represents the highest level of per capita production in Jamaica's history to date,” Clarke said, noting that the Kingston Metropolitan Area (KMA) registered a rate of 9.2 per cent, other urban centres 12 per cent, and rural areas a poverty rate of 15 per cent.
He said the main economic factor accounting for this decline in poverty is GDP growth rate of 1.9 per cent in 2018, but noted that there was not enough data to identify all the factors which assisted with the drop in poverty rates for that year.
Opposition spokesman on finance Mark Golding said his side welcomed the decline in the poverty rate but argued that, “it is a complete fabrication to say all of Jamaica's economic variables were moving in the right direction prior to COVID-19, that is simply not the case... Those results [from 2018] are not what matters to the Jamaican people now.
[East African] Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta on Wednesday urged leaders in the continent to improve food security policies by basing decisions on data and science.
Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta paid a visit to the Nairobi National Vaccine Depot on Thursday.
BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The confirmed global death toll from the COVID-19 virus reached at least 400,000 fatalities yesterday, a day after the Government of Brazil broke with standard public health protocols by ceasing to publish updates of the number of deaths and infections in the hard-hit South American country.
Brazil's Government has stopped publishing a running total of coronavirus deaths and infections; critics say it's an attempt to hide the true toll of the disease.
After Bolsonaro stoked his clash with health experts, Pope Francis cautioned people in countries emerging from lockdown to keep following authorities' rules on social distancing, hygiene and limits on movement.
Worries have surfaced over the past couple of weeks that Prime Minister Boris Johnson's Government is easing the restrictions too soon, with new infections potentially still running at 8,000 a day.
Yesterday, the UK Government reported another 77 people died after contracting the virus, the lowest daily increase since the lockdown began on March 23.
[VOA] Washington -- Somalia announced Thursday it has restored its diplomatic relations with Kenya, following talks between leaders of the neighboring countries, mediated by Qatar.
That said, Californians are rightfully confused by the rapid, even erratic, changes of course that Gov. Gavin Newsom has steered in recent weeks after drawing praise for his early and straightforward actions in the first days of the public health crisis.
Newsom’s regular, although no longer weekly, webcasts on COVID-19 have evolved into repetitive talkathons resembling those annoying public television fundraising breaks.
He gave counties the option to reopen their economies if they met certain criteria, saying “localism is determinitive” and seemingly shifting the political onus to local officials,
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By early June, many segments of the economy were opening, but within a couple of weeks, infections and deaths were spiking alarmingly and Newsom was becoming defensive about the wisdom of reopening.
“When you have people that are struggling and suffering with severe mental health and brain health issues, when people are not attending to their physical and emotional needs, those social determinants of health also must be considered,” Newsom said on June 15.
However, from rationalizing the reopening, Newsom has shifted in recent days to admonishing Californians for not being diligent enough in wearing the masks he mandated and avoiding large, virus-spreading congregations.
SMSs are more appealing to Kenyans seeking to cut costs amid turbulent economic times.
