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Adamawa state government has established radio/television categories for elementary school students to help them attend school while schools remain closed due to the coronavirus outbreak. Under the new arrangement, academics will have to take the normal categories of radio or television according to their point and/or subject.
The president of the state’s Council for Universal Basic Education, Salihi Ateequ, told reporters in Yola, the state capital, on Wednesday that the resolution was to reduce the learning deficit created by the coronavirus outbreak. “We believe this will help young people with the lost time caused by the coronavirus outbreak,” he said.
Uganda has reported 19 new Covid-19s in the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 1322.
“Of the nineteen cases shown, 11 are alerts, five are contacts with cases shown in the past, while 3 are truck drivers,” says one from the Ministry of Health (via CGTN Africa).
“Of the five contacts, 4 are from the Kampala metropolitan area and one from Wakiso.”
Germany’s leading infectious disease institute said Wednesday that a first vaccine opposed to coronavirus could be available as early as the fall, but warned that the pandemic could take longer.
“Preliminary projections make the availability of one or more vaccines imaginable until the fall of 2020,” the Robert Koch Institute said on its website, introducing a global effort to bring vaccines to market.
“It would be detrimental at this level to believe that vaccination from the fall of 2020 will be able to control the pandemic,” he warned. The effect of any vaccine can be attenuated through viral mutations or the resulting immunity for only a short duration of immunity, the institute added. (Reuters Report)
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa is about to loosen the rules of the lockout, adding the possible elimination of the ban on the sale of alcohol, according to Bloomberg sources.
“The measures we have put in place are being implemented and we are seeing an increase in the number of infections,” said Lungi Mtshali, spokesman for the Ministry of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (via Bloomberg). “The numbers are being reduced and normal tests will be done to open up the economy once it is ready.”
Egypt is preparing for a momentary wave of the coronavirus outbreak, which has inflamed more than 95,000 people in the country, following a recent accumulation of cases.
“We say we’ve entered a momentary wave of coronavirus because the existing wave isn’t over,” said presidential health adviser Muhammad Awad Tajuddin (via Arab News).
“The number of instances has decreased, however, there has been an accumulation in recent days. We expected this because the same thing happened at Eid Al-Fitr because of the giant concentrations on the coasts and on the beaches,” he added.
Nigeria has reported 423 new cases of coronavirus in the more than 24 hours, including six deaths, bringing totals to 47290 and 956 respectively.
117 des nouveaux cas ont été détectés dans le Lagos, le reste dans: FCT-40, Ondo-35, Rivers-28, Osun-24, Benue-21, Abia-19, Ogun-19, Ebonyi-18, Delta- 17 , Kwara-17, Kaduna-15, Anambra-14, Ekiti-11, Kano-9, Imo-6, Gombe-4, Oyo-3, Taraba-3, Bauchi-1 Edo-1 and Nasarawa-1. (via today.ng)
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Russia said wednesday that the first batch of its Covid-19 vaccine would be in position for some doctors in two weeks’ time and dismissed as “baseless” protection considerations expressed by some experts about Moscow’s rapid approval of the drug.
President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Russia was the first country to grant regulatory approval to a COVID-19 vaccine after less than two months of human testing. The vaccine has not yet finished its last trials. Only about 10% of clinical trials are a success and some scientists fear that Moscow will put national prestige ahead of safety. (Reuters Report)
(Bloomberg) The South African government is considering recommendations to further facilitate the blocking of coronavirus to revive economic growth, Sowetan, who mentioned two unidentified people, reported.
Heads-general of the state departments that met on Sunday begged the government to open more economic sectors strictly in compliance with regulations on social estrangement, hand-disinfection and masking, the Johannesburg-based newspaper said Wednesday. It’s possible the government announces a relaxation this week, he said.
South Africa is taking its position in the coronavirus vaccine race in two overseas trials for potential candidates, News24 reports.
Speaking to Spotlight (v-a News24), Dr. Glenda Gray, president and chief executive of the Medical Research Council SA, showed that Johnson and Johnson and Novavax will check a candidate vaccine in the country in September.
South Africa is also the country where the first candidate vaccine in Africa was tested in June. Gray also asked scientists to volunteer for vaccines.
“We are all citizens of this country and we are all affected by Covid-19. Scientists have to roll up their arms in a number of ways. We are at one end of the needle and we are never at the end of the filming (receive) of the needle,” Gray said.
African Union member states have now reported 1,057,599 cases of the new coronavirus with 23,616 deaths and another 745,530 people cured. The southern region remains the most affected in terms of the total number of cases, and accounts for more than one part of the total.
Zambia’s public fitness firm says the country is facing a massive buildup of coronavirus cases because its citizens forget government regulations.
“The fight is still going on. This isn’t just a government struggle. The other aspect will also have to react,” Dr. Victor Mukonka, director of Zambia’s National Institute of Public Health, told the press.
Confirmed Covid-19 instances in South Africa rose to just over 2500 on Tuesday. The total number of cases is 566,109, compared to 2511 on Monday, and the death toll is now 10,751. The largest peak occurred in Gauteng, where new instances rose to 34.2%.
Angola has announced that its borders will remain closed in combat to prevent it from being transmitted by the coronavirus in the country. Only Angolan citizens and foreign nationals can return to the country, while foreign citizens can leave to return to their respective countries of origin. Official is also allowed.
The measure, which entered into force on 10 August and will last until 8 September, for access and exit of cargo, goods, humanitarian aid and medical emergencies.
Hello and welcome to our live, African-focused policy of the coronavirus pandemic, which until 08:00 had more than 20.2 million cases and more than 740,000 deaths worldwide, according to knowledge compiled through Johns Hopkins University.
In Africa, according to the latest update by the World Health Organization (WHO), positive cases exceed one million, while another 23,000 people have died from the virus.
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