Category: Coronavirus (COVID-19)

Mon 29 November 2021: Chinese President Xi Jinping announced on Monday that China will ship an additional billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines to African countries. “China will provide Africa with another billion doses of vaccines,” Xi said at the opening ceremony of the 8th ministerial conference of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation, as quoted by […]

Mon 29 November 2021: Gauteng continues to see continued high levels of COVID-19 cases and hospital admissions, as the fight against the Omicron variant begins. According to Dr Waasila Jassat of the National Institute for Communicable Diseases, hospital admissions have mostly been recorded in Tshwane, in both the private and public sectors. However, the other […]

Mon 29 November 2021: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Sunday that authorities were considering making COVID-19 shots compulsory for certain places and activities, as a rise in infections linked to a new variant threatens to become a fourth wave. Only a quarter of South Africans are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 despite a sufficient […]

Mon 29 November 2021: The coronavirus pandemic will cost the global tourism sector $2.0 trillion in lost revenue in 2021, the UN’s tourism body said Monday, calling the sector’s recovery “fragile” and “slow”. The forecast from the Madrid-based World Tourism Organization comes as Europe is grappling with a surge in infections and as a new […]

Sun 28 November 2021: The head of the WHO in Africa has urged countries to follow the science rather than imposing flight bans in a bid to contain the new Omicron variant. WHO urged countries to keep borders open, saying banning flights over the potentially more transmissable Omicron strain “attacks global solidarity.” “With the Omicron […]

Sun 28 November 2021: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa address to the nation about the country’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Following meetings of the National Coronavirus Command Council, the President’s Co-ordinating Council, and the Cabinet, the president delivered his address. The President says there are still a number of things about the variant that […]

Sun 28 November 2021: As more cases of the coronavirus’s Omicron strain have been reported around the world, South Africa appears to be taking a bashing for disclosing its detection of the variant. The United Kingdom, Belgium, Israel, Germany, and the Netherlands are among the most recent countries to report cases of the new strain. […]