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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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Tanzania's main opposition leader Tundu Lissu says on Kenyan National TV KTN, from Belgium where he is in exile, that Tanzania's President John Magufuli died from the coronavirus last Wednesday.

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FOUR more people have died from covid19, while 197 more became infected, according to the Ministry of Health's daily update on Tuesday.

Since last year March, some 1,426 people have died from the virus.

Some 48,826 people have been infected, of whom 43,397 have recovered. The country now has 4,003 people infected. Some 288 patients are in hospital, 66 in step-down facilities, 153 in state quarantine and 3,452 in home self-isolation.

Since last year, some 340,707 were tested for the virus, of whom 148,270 at private facilities.

To date some 560,725 people have had the first of a two-dose regime of vaccination. Some 454,373 are fully vaccinated with the second dose of a two-dose regime.

Some 13,417 were treated under a single-dose regime (that is, the Johnson and Johnson vaccine.) In all, 467,790 people are fully vaccinated.

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Barbados elected Sandra Mason to be its first President on Wednesday. The decision comes after a joint session of the country's House of Assembly and Senate, which elected her by […]

The post Barbados Elects A Black Woman President, Replacing Britain's Queen Elizabeth As Head Of State appeared first on Essence.

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