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Rescue workers pulled a 10th body from the rubble of a collapsed Florida condominium on Monday, as officials vowed to keep searching for survivors.
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.
From top politicians – former presidents, prime ministers and lawmakers, to entertainment icons and top sportsmen, the virus has left in its wake prominent casualties who could hardly get the send-off they would have been accorded in “normal times.”
Somalia COVID-19 stats: May 11 at 7:00 GMT:
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\t\tConfirmed cases = 1054
\t\tNumber of deaths = 51
\t\tRecoveries = 118
May 2: Nigerien minister succumbs to virus
\tCoronavirus caused the death of Niger’s minister of employment and labour, Mohamed Ben Omar, public television announced Monday after several media outlets had linked his death to the virus.
READ MORE – Niger Labour Minister dies from virus
April 28: Revered Kenyan Bishop dies in Italy
\tMedia in Kenya earlier this week reported the death of a former Catholic Bishop who died of COVID-19 in the Italian city of Turin.
Major African stats: May 1 at 7:00 GMT:
\t\tConfirmed cases = 38,825
\t\tNumber of deaths = 1,634
\t\tRecoveries = 12,543
\t\tInfected countries = 51
\t\tVirus-free countries = 1 (Lesotho)
April 18: Sékou Kourouma: Guinea’s chief of staff succumbs
\tGuinea recorded a second high-profile death from COVID-19 within a 24-hour period after that of elections body head Amadou Salif Kebe was announced on Friday, April 17.
BBC report
April 12: Khalif Mumin: Top Somalia regional official
\tSomalia lost a regional official to COVID-19 on Sunday, April 12.
[Nation] The number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in Kenya has risen to 83,618 following 302 new positive tests from 3,038 samples, the Ministry of Health has reported.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- 1,064 more infections with COVID-19 were reported on February 5, until 11 p.m. out of a total of 5,232 tests carried out, the Health Ministry stated Saturday evening in its daily report.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- 901 COVID-19 infections were reported on May 16 from 4,703 conducted tests (i.e. 19.16% positivity rate against 32.5% on May 13), pushing the infection caseload to 327,473, the Health Ministry said Monday.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- A death from the coronavirus was recorded on Wednesday in the governorate of Kebili, taking the death toll in the region to 129 people since the outbreak of the pandemic, said health programmes officer in Kebili Ali Haddad. In addition, 17 further infections have been reported in the region, bringing the count to 3,006 since the outbreak of the pandemic, he specified to TAP.
Rescue workers in the Turkish port city of Izmir are continuing to search for the survivors of Friday's deadly earthquake, as officials said the death toll has increased to at least 64.
The powerful 6.6-magnitude earthquake has claimed at least 62 lives in Turkey and two teenagers died on the Greek island of Samos.
Nearly 900 people were injured, two-thirds of them have now been discharged from the hospital.
The quake triggered tidal waves that hit the Turkish and Greek islands.
Over a dozen buildings in Izmir were severely damaged or destroyed by the initial quakes and the hundreds of aftershocks that ensued. Parts of the city were also flooded by seawater.
'Never lose hope'
Rescue teams are scouring through the rubble of collapsed buildings for a third day looking for survivors.
Shortly after midnight, Ahmet Citim, 70, was pulled from the rubble of a building in Izmir. Health Minister Fahrettin Koca said in a Tweet: \"I never lost my hope.\"
It is unclear how many people remain trapped under the rubble. Turkish media reported three more people were pulled out Sunday from one collapsed apartment building but their conditions were not known.
Turkey is prone to earthquakes. In 1999, two powerful quakes killed some 18,000 people in northwestern Turkey. Earthquakes are frequent in Greece as well.
In a rare show of unity amid months of tense bilateral relations, Greek and Turkish government officials issued mutual messages of solidarity over the quake toll.
The quake occurred as Turkey was already struggling with an economic downturn and the coronavirus pandemic.
More than 10,000 people in Turkey have died from COVID-19.
(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica— Jamaica recorded 389 new cases of COVID-19 and nine additional deaths yesterday bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 39,237 and the death toll to 596.
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The total number of confirmed Covid-19 cases in South Africa has reached 20,125, Health Minister Zweli Mkhize said on Friday.
The country recorded 988 cases over the past 24 hours, Mkhize said in his daily update.
Nationwide, a total of 543,032 tests have been conducted so far, with 17,599 done in the last 24 hours, said Mkhize.
South Africa is preparing to ease the lockdown from level four to level three of a five-level system by the end of May, which will allow more businesses to reopen and greater movement of people.
As South Africa is entering the winter season when flu is common, the fight against Covid-19 will become more complicated and difficult, Mkhize said, adding the country's capabilities to fight the virus will then be put to test.
By SAMY MAGDY Associated Press CAIRO (AP) — The death toll from tribal violence between Arabs and non-Arabs in Sudan's West Darfur province climbed to at least 83, including women and children, a doctor's union and aid worker said, as sporadic violence continued Sunday. The ruling sovereign council met Sunday and said security forces would be deployed to the area. The deadly clashes grew out of a fistfight Friday between two people in a camp for displaced people in Genena, the provincial capital. An Arab man was stabbed to death and his family, from the Arab Rizeigat tribe, attacked the […]
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Seven people have died following a horrific accident involving several vehicles on the N3 in KZN on Monday afternoon at approximately 15:45.
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases in South Africa (as of Monday May 11) surpassed 10,000, including 194 fatalities, according to Health Minister Zwelini Mkhize.
However, the minister said the government might consider tighter restrictions in coronavirus hotspots such as Cape Town and Johannesburg which have the highest cases of infections in the country.
Cape Town and the surrounding Western Cape province have become South Africa’s coronavirus hotspot, accounting for more than half of the nation’s confirmed cases, which have gone above 10,600.
The Western Cape province has 5,621 cases, according to figures released Monday, and of the country’s 206 deaths registered from COVID-19, 116 have occurred in the province.
However, the concentration of cases in Cape Town may see the city return to a stricter lockdown, according to Health Minister Zweli Mkizhe.
[This Day] Scores were feared killed and no fewer than 50 houses razed, after a tanker conveying petroleum products exploded at Oshigbudu in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State.
Excavation of mass grave site begins at Tulsa’s Oaklawn Cemetery By The Associated Press Crews searching a Tulsa cemetery for victims of the 1921 Race Massacre found five more coffins on Thursday, bringing to 20 the number of coffins found at a mass grave feature there, city officials said Thursday. After much of the excavation and analysis is completed this […]
Fatalities continue to rise in towns outside Chicago with large Black populations
Oak Lawn, Chicago Heights and Country Club Hills have the highest COVID-19 deaths among Blacks in cities outside Chicago, according to the latest data from the Cook County Medical Examiner’s Office.
The youngest COVID-19 victim in Oak Lawn was 34 and the oldest was 100.
The COVID-19 death toll in Chicago Heights now stands at 21.
Homewood had the next highest COVID-19 death toll at 15.
Twelve towns with large Black populations had less than ten deaths including Dolton, Bellwood, Maywood, Oak Park, Blue Island and Thornton.
At least 29 people have died this year in motor vehicle crashes that occurred after the start of the nightly all-island curfews, new statistics have revealed. The death toll resulted from 25 fatal crashes that involved a total of 39 vehicles, some...
Eight people were killed by unidentified gunmen in a shootout Friday night in a working-class neighbourhood of Goma in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, the governor of North Kivu said.
\"Two individuals arrived on a motorbike at a barber shop and killed two people, firing without warning. Then they stole some phones. They then fired indiscriminately on the population, resulting in a death toll of eight people,\" Carly Nzanzu Kasivita, governor of North Kivu told newmen.
The shooting took place at 19H00 (17H00 GMT) in Ndosho, an outlying district located at the exit of the city towards the Nyarangongo volcano, Kasivita said. The two assailants fled, he added.
The authorities have launched an investigation.
Previous shootings had taken place in Goma, and in the same neighborhood, as in March 2019 (six deaths).
Goma is the capital of North Kivu province in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Cong. Dozens of armed groups reportedly threaten the safety of civilians in the region.
The agency in a tweet late on Wednesday evening said the 284 new cases were reported in 13 states.
These are Lagos, Rivers, Oyo, Federal Capital Territory (FCT) , Borno, Plateau, Jigawa, Kano, Abia, Ekiti, Delta, Kwara,and Taraba.
NCDC said \"on May 20, 284 new confirmed cases and 8 deaths was recorded in Nigeria
\"Till date, 6677 cases have been confirmed, 1840 cases have been discharged and 200 deaths have been recorded in 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory, the agency tweeted.
The 284 new cases were reported from 13 states: Lagos - 199, Rivers - 26, Oyo - 19, FCT - 8, Borno - 8, Plateau - 7, Jigawa - 6, Kano - 5, Abia - 2, Ekiti - 1, Delta - 1 , Kwara - 1, and Taraba - 1.
A breakdown of the 6,677 confirmed cases shows that Lagos State has so far reported 2,954 cases, followed by Kano - 847, FCT - 435, Katsina - 281, Bauchi - 224, Borno - 227, Jigawa - 211, Ogun - 178, Oyo - 162,Kaduna - 152, Gombe - 136, Edo - 119, Sokoto - 113, Rivers - 79, ,Zamfara - 76, Kwara - 66, Plateau - 57, Osun - 42, Nasarawa - 34, Yobe - 32, Kebbi - 32, Delta - 28, Adamawa - 26, Niger - 22, Ondo - 20, Ekiti - 19,Akwa Ibom - 18, Taraba - 18, Enugu - 16, Ebonyi - 13, Imo - 7, Bayelsa - 7, Abia - 7, Benue - 5, and Anambra - 5 .
A donation of 3,000 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccines from Barbados has kick-started the first phase of COVID-19 vaccinations in Guyana with frontline workers set to receive their first shots today.
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South Africa's caseload now stands at 563 598 confirmed cases, along with 10 621 deaths and 417 200 recoveries.
The Minister of Health Dr Zweli Mkhize has reiterated government’s concern over large gatherings exposing people to COVID-19, after matric rage parties were identified as superspreader events
[MAP] Rabat -- Morocco has recorded 1,899 new cases of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) over the past 24 hours while 2,531 Covid-19 patients have recovered in the same period, the Ministry of Health said on Sunday.
BAYRAKLI, Turkey (AFP) - A three-year-old girl was pulled from rubble yesterday, 91 hours after a powerful earthquake hit western Turkey, offering a ray of hope for grieving families as the death toll soared past 100.But only hours after Ayda Gezgin was miraculously recovered in the hard-hit town of Bayrakli, rescuers found the lifeless body of her mother Fidan, 38, in the same room of their destroyed apartment.
Africa’s last country to record a case was Lesotho on March 13.
Details: Most impacted countries per region
\t\tNorth Africa = Egypt: 17,967 cases, 4,900 recoveries, 783 deaths
\t\tCentral Africa = Cameroon: 4,890 cases, 1,865 recoveries, 165 deaths
\t\tWest Africa = Nigeria: 8,068 cases, 2,311 recoveries, 233 deaths
\t\tEast Africa = Sudan: 3,974 cases, 503 recoveries, 170 deaths
\t\tSouthern Africa = South Africa: 23,615 cases, 11,917 recoveries, 481 deaths
Major African stats: May 26 at 6:00 GMT:
\t\tConfirmed cases = 115,892
\t\tNumber of deaths = 3,479
\t\tRecoveries = 46,553
\t\tActive cases = 65,860
\tThe basic records are referenced from the John Hopkins hospital LIVE portal, we also corroborate figures with African Union’s Africa Centers for Disease Control, Africa CDC whiles prioritizing tallies from trusted national sources.
The classifications are based on where the countries are located especially in the case of countries that belong to two different blocs.
Experts are currently advocating mass testing as cases of local transmission grow in a number of countries.
Most countries are lifting lockdowns, but curfews and ban on gatherings largely remain in place to combat spread and improve containment of confirmed cases.
[Tunis Afrique Presse] Tunis/Tunisia -- More infections and deaths of coronavirus have been reported across the country. Following are the latest updates on the health situation in the governorates of Kef and Siliana:
South Africa has recorded 85 more Covid-19-related deaths, bringing the death toll to 18 741.
