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Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South Africa’s National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) on Thursday said there is no need to panic about the reported cases of human metapneumovirus (hMPV) in China

©- - 10 january 2025 - 07:47:36 - thread (188 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) – South African port health officials have developed an outbreak preparedness plan that outlines the response in dealing with MPOX

©- - 26 june 2024 - 14:22:15 - thread (232 words)


Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (PANA) - The African Union's Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has called on the global community to consider including health emergencies as part of inclusive packages of international peacekeeping operations

©- - 22 march 2024 - 16:19:19 - thread (321 words)


Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The government of Japan has announced its support for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) programme in response to deadly epidemics, with a sum of 791,000 US dollars, according to a press release sent to PANA on Friday

©- - 22 december 2023 - 18:51:29 - thread (168 words)


Geneva, Switzerland (PANA) - Urgent action is needed to control e-cigarettes to protect children, as well as non-smokers and minimize health harms to the population, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned in a statement issued here Thursday

©- - 14 december 2023 - 14:17:28 - thread (767 words)


Bujumbura, Burundi (PANA) - The Burundian Ministry of Public Health and the Fight against HIV/AIDS has called for vigilance against the Marburg virus disease, taking into account the movement of populations with neighbouring Tanzania where confirmed cases have already been reported

©- - 26 march 2023 - 18:21:51 - thread (375 words)


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

©- - 02 january 2022 - 14:13:22 - thread (409 words)


Cape Town, South Africa (PANA) - The South African government has announced sweeping changes to the coronavirus (COVID-19) regulations with immediate effect

©- - 31 december 2021 - 09:28:59 - thread (357 words)


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

©- - 21 december 2021 - 08:05:30 - thread (182 words)


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

©- - 01 december 2021 - 15:08:56 - thread (348 words)


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

©- - 06 april 2021 - 14:47:11 - thread (345 words)


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

©- - 21 december 2020 - 16:18:52 - thread (237 words)


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

©- - 09 december 2020 - 18:41:26 - thread (193 words)


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

©- - 08 october 2020 - 14:58:57 - thread (119 words)


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

©- - 25 september 2020 - 23:43:58 - thread (85 words)


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

©- - 24 september 2020 - 23:09:24 - thread (108 words)


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

©- - 24 september 2020 - 13:46:33 - thread (93 words)


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

©- - 23 september 2020 - 10:22:04 - thread (159 words)


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

©- - 22 september 2020 - 00:06:21 - thread (162 words)


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

©- - 18 september 2020 - 23:04:31 - thread (212 words)


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

©- - 16 september 2020 - 22:54:47 - thread (216 words)


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

©- - 12 september 2020 - 22:30:41 - thread (193 words)


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

©- - 08 september 2020 - 22:30:09 - thread (223 words)


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

©- - 08 september 2020 - 00:10:36 - thread (210 words)


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

©- - 03 september 2020 - 23:14:05 - thread (198 words)


Kigali, Rwanda (PANA) -  Rwandan health authorities Wednesday announced one new death due to coronavirus (COVID-19) to bring the death toll to 17

©- - 02 september 2020 - 22:32:57 - thread (218 words)


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

©- - 27 august 2020 - 00:00:34 - thread (85 words)


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

©- - 25 august 2020 - 23:58:40 - thread (199 words)


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

©- - 21 august 2020 - 01:33:07 - thread (355 words)


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

©- - 21 august 2020 - 00:07:30 - thread (151 words)


  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

©- - 11 august 2020 - 00:29:59 - thread (132 words)


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

©- - 27 july 2020 - 15:54:04 - thread (149 words)


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

©- - 23 july 2020 - 18:36:09 - thread (295 words)


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

©- - 15 july 2020 - 14:43:46 - thread (208 words)


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

©- - 13 july 2020 - 09:27:12 - thread (122 words)


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

©- - 09 july 2020 - 14:40:02 - thread (131 words)