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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Since mid-December 2021, Burundi has reported a daily average of 470 new confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), reflecting a spike in the general population, the Ministry of Public Health and Fight against HIV/AIDS said here Sunday Full text...
Coronavirus: South Africa' lifts curfew on pandemic
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Coronavirus: Burundi records 427 new cases
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Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - Burundi over the past 24 hours recorded 310 cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) from community transmission and 117 imported cases, official source said here Monday
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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - South Africa on Friday announced it would donate more than two million doses of Johnson & Johnson's coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine to other African countries
Full text... Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - During the last 7 days, 23 of the 25 new cases (92%) of confirmed Coronavirus have been detected in travelers arriving in Burundi from neighbouring DR Congo, the Ministry of Health said on Sunday
Full text... Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - President Cyril Ramaphosa has taken a swipe at African countries which have implemented travel bans to South Africa over the COVID-19 pandemic, saying they should not act like former colonizers
Full text... Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The massive screening campaign launched in Burundi on 11 January yielded 100,530 coronavirus (COVID-19) tests, or 52
Full text... Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) on Tuesday approached the South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) to urgently launch an investigation into Pretoria’s “tardy and criminally slow” vaccine rollout strategy
Full text... Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Global Fund has released US$118 million to help Burundi in the fight against HIV, tuberculosis and malaria over the next three years, the Ministry of Public Health and the Fight against AIDS said on Saturday
Full text... Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa on Tuesday urged wealthy countries to release their excess COVID-19 vaccine stocks so that other countries can also benefit
Full text... Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Five countries on Monday announced that they have have banned flights from South Africa following the discovery of a new variant of the coronavirus
Full text... Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – Health Minister Zweli Mkhize on Wednesday announced that South Africa has entered its second wave of COVID-19 infections, with 6,079 new cases reported over the past 24 hours
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The cumulative number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Rwanda has reached 3,408 in the last 24 hours compared to a total 4,883 confirmed cases since the outbreak of the pandemic in this East African country, a report from the Ministry of Health in Kigali on Thursday indicated
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's ministry of Sports stressed Wednesday that contact sports had been allowed to reopen but gyms and swimming were still prohibited under coronavirus (COVID-19) restrictions in the country
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The total number of recoveries from coronavirus (COVID-19) surged to 3,117 Monday after 18 new patients reported at recuperating centres and 12 new cases recorded in the last 24 hours
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - A 46-year-old woman and 44-year-old man succumbed to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic here Friday, raising the deaths recorded in Rwanda to 29 since the outbreak of the pandemic in March, this year, the ministry of Health said here
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda Thursday reported 10 new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases and 55 more recoveries, bringing the total caseload of infections to 4,789 while the death toll remains at 27
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The number of COVID-19 cases in Rwanda has increased by 41 over the last 24 hours, with 4 new recoveries, the Health ministry announced on Thursday
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda has reported 16 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours bringing the total infections in the country to 4,738 while the death toll remains at 27, the Ministry of Health said in an update on Wednesday
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda registered one death from coronavirus (COVID-19) in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 27, the ministry of Health announced here Monday
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda recorded two coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths Friday involving two people aged 29 and 80, according to the bulletin of the ministry of Health here
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's Health ministry Wednesday reported 10 new confirmed cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total in the East African country to 4,634
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's coronavirus (COVID-19) case tally rose to 4,565 and the number of deaths still at 22 in the last 24 hours, the data issued by ministry of Health said here Saturday
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The cumulative number of confirmed coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Rwanda climbed to 4,439 after the confirmation of 30 new infections in the last 24 hours, the ministry of Health said in its latest update issued here Tuesday
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan Monday reported 35 new coronavirus (COVID-19) cases to bring the total cases to 4,409 and recoveries to 2,271
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's coronavirus (COVID-19) cases jumped by 37 Friday to 4,255 following the testing of 5,079 samples in 24 hours, an official source said here
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan health authorities Thursday announced one more death from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection over the past 24 hours, pushing the total deaths to 18 and the total number of confirmed cases to 4,255
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan health authorities Wednesday announced one new death due to coronavirus (COVID-19) to bring the death toll to 17
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda recorded 43 more infections of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) early Monday, bringing its total case count to 4,063, official sources said here
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's coronavirus (COVID-19) cases Wednesday reached 3,625 after 88 new infections were reported in the last 24 hours, the health ministry said
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda reported 231 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19) infections Tuesday, bringing its total confirmed cases to 3,537, the country's ministry of Health said here
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The mRNA vaccine under development and targeting the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) should be procured when it becomes available, an official source said here Thursday
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda registered one more death from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 11, the Ministry of Health announced late Thursday
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's coronavirus (COVID-19) cases rose by 12 within one day to 2,152, the ministry of Health said here Monday
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwandan health officials Friday reported 17 new cases of coronavirus (COVID-19), bringing the total confirmed cases to 2,128
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda has reported 69 new positive cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours, the highest since March when the country registered its first cases, according to the daily update issued on Monday by the Ministry of Health in Kigali
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Two people who fled a quarantine centre in Eastern Rwanda have been arrested after several weeks of search operation in Eastern Rwanda, a police source confirmed on Thursday
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - One of the senior officers of the Rwanda Correctional Services has been arrested following an investigation into favoritism towards a group of prisoners at Mageragere maximum prison in the outskirt of Kigali city during COVID-19 lockdown, a judicial source revealed Thursday in Kigali
Full text... Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – The Netherlands has donated to South Africa more than 130,000 vials for testing and diagnosing COVID-19 cases
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's national carrier RwandAir announced on Wednesday the resumption of international flights on select African routes where borders are open, as well as to Dubai, with effect from August 1
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's health officials on Sunday reported that the country so far had accumulated 1,337 cases of novel coronavirus (COVID-19) since the outbreak began in March this year
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - Rwanda's security agency is hunting two detainees who tested positive for Covid-19 but escaped from a custody in Ngoma district of south-eastern Rwanda, a police source said on Thursday
Full text... Paris, France (PANA) - The African continent on Wednesday exceeded 500,000 cases of the new coronavirus (COVID-19) with 12,000 deaths altogether, the regional office of the World Health Organization said
Full text... Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) - The number of coronavirus (COVID-19) cases in Rwanda has risen to 1,194 after a single day increase of 22 infections, the ministry of Health said here Wednesday
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