[ad_1] Senior officials, including new President Samia Suluhu Hassan, and supporters of the ruling party attend the service at Uhuru Stadium in Dar es Salaam. Mourners in Tanzania have lined the streets of the country’s largest city, Dar es Salaam, to pay their respects to President John Magufuli, days after …
Read More »Tokyo Olympics to ban overseas spectators to curb Covid-19 risk
[ad_1] TOKYO – Foreign spectators will not be able to attend the Summer Olympics in Tokyo, event organizers said, a move to reduce the possibility of the coronavirus spreading at the Games and increase lukewarm support for the event among the Japanese. The Tokyo Games are scheduled to open on …
Read More »UK records another 4,802 coronavirus cases, 101 deaths
[ad_1] Another 4,802 people in Britain have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total number of coronavirus cases in the country to 4,285,684, according to official figures released on Friday. The country also reported 101 other coronavirus-related deaths. The total number of coronavirus-related deaths in Britain now stands at 126,026. …
Read More »John Magufuli: Has Tanzania’s Covid Denier Leader Died From Coronavirus? It is one of the many questions it leaves behind.
[ad_1] Samia Suluhu Hassan said Magufuli was receiving treatment at a Tanzanian hospital when he died on Wednesday night. However, opposition leaders insist that Magufuli died of Covid-19 at least a week earlier. Tundu Lissu of the opposition Chadema party said Thursday in an interview with a Kenyan broadcaster that …
Read More »Expats forced to face ‘brutal’ Covid quarantine in Hong Kong
[ad_1] An unknown number appeared on the phone of Kylie Davies-Worley, a retail consultancy who has lived in Hong Kong for nearly 20 years, at 8:30 a.m. Saturday morning. Her 18-month-old son had been exposed to the coronavirus in a playgroup, the caller said. A bus would arrive in the …
Read More »India’s vaccine diplomacy sets the pace for the global community
[ad_1] India’s vaccine diplomacy sets the pace for the global community A worker carries a box of Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines that arrived from India, Dhaka, Bangladesh, on January 21, 2021. (Reuters) Using a new EU rule, Italy this month banned large pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca from shipping some of its coronavirus …
Read More »Ethiopia: as Ethiopia takes the first hits of Covid-19, doctor warns of oxygen shortage and increase in serious cases
[ad_1] The most severe cases of the disease are putting pressure on staff in distress and depleting limited resources, says Natnael Bekuretsion, medical director of an Addis Ababa hospital. * Ethiopia secures 2.2 million doses of vaccines through COVAX * Fearing shortages, the hospital tries to store oxygen cylinders * …
Read More »Sea of Thieves fans create a pirate Olympiad
[ad_1] Sea of Thieves he’s about to get his own version of the Olympics, thanks to a fan-made tournament. Spuleta, a longtime content creator, has announced the second season of “Spulecup,” and pirates can compete by proving they are the best at a variety of nautical tasks. For example, in …
Read More »Ethiopia: Stopping the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic is everyone’s responsibility
[ad_1] TESHOME MENGISTEAB It has been a year since Ethiopia confirmed the first case of COVID-19. It was last year, March 13, 2020, that the country notified the case. Indeed, since the pandemic has become a global threat, the Ethiopian Government, together with stakeholders, regional and international organizations, has made …
Read More »Confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa exceed 4.06 million – Africa CDC
[ad_1] ADDIS ABABA, March 18 (Xinhua) – The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 4,062,388 as of noon Thursday, the African Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC Africa) said. Africa’s CDC, the African Union (AU) specialized health care agency, said the death toll related to the pandemic …
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