HEALTH: China admits shortcomings and deficiencies on the ‘Coronavirus’
The rare admission came from the Politburo Standing Committee, which called for an improvement in…
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AFRICA: Museveni screens for Coronavirus on arrival from Angola.
President Yoweri Museveni has been screened of the deadly coronavirus on arrival to Entebbe International…
HEALTH: Egypt takes precautionary measures against coronavirus.
Officials from the World Health Organization in Egypt said they were working to prevent the…
GERMANY: Nurse accused of poisoning five premature babies with morphine.
German police and prosecutors are questioning a nurse accused of poisoning five premature babies with…
KENYA: Patience running out for Kenyan students still in China
Kenyan students caught up in a lockdown in Wuhan, China, are worried that the government…
HEALTH: “Coronavirus cases top 10,000” America declares public health emergency.
U.S. officials on Friday declared the coronavirus outbreak a public health emergency. The declaration comes…
UGANDA: Sheema govt health centre rejects donation of scan from FDC.
A government health centre in Sheema Municipality has turned down a donation of a scan…
AMERICA: US bars foreigners who recently visited China.
US citizens returning from Hubei province, where the outbreak started, will be quarantined for 14…
AFRICA: Senegal’s main airport undertaking coronavirus screening.
At the Blaise Diagne airport in Dakar Senegal, medical processes are in place to control…
HEALTH: How African countries are responding to Coronavirus.
As the death toll from the Coronavirus surpassed 200 in China, several African countries have…
KENYA: Kenya Airways Suspends Flights to China.
National carrier Kenya Airways has suspended flights to China, hours after the World Health Organisation…
HEALTH: Coronavirus declared global health emergency by WHO
“The main reason for this declaration is not what is happening in China but what…
HEALTH: Kenyatta Hospital to collaborate with University of Manchester in cancer treatment.
Kenya President Uhuru Kenyatta on Thursday, January 30, 2020, held talks with visiting officials of…
HEALTH: Scientists race to develop a vaccine for the deadly Coronavirus.
We’ve been here many times before. In the past five years alone, the world has…
HEALTH: Nigeria closes Chinese shop over coronavirus fears.
The consumer protection agency in Nigeria on Wednesday, January 29 closed a Chinese-owned supermarket selling…
FEATURE STORIES: Ugandans in China advised to delay return until situation normalizes.
The government through the Ministry of Health has advised Ugandans who are currently in China…
UGANDA: Ministry of Health hid UGX27b donor fund from govt.
The just-released December 2019 audit report has revealed that the Ministry of Health hid Shs27b…
HEALTH: All you need to know about the 2019 Novel Coronavirus.
By January 7 2020, it was confirmed that a new coronavirus now named 2019-nCoV had…
HEALTH: Coronavirus: Death toll rises to 81 as China extends holiday
The national new year holiday has been extended by three days to Sunday, in an…
CHINA: Death toll rises in China as coronavirus spreads.
The death toll from a newly-discovered coronavirus in China has risen to 41 on the…