Ivory Coast Minister Tests Positive for COVID-19
Ivory Coast’s Defense Minister, Hamed Bakayoko, has tested positive for coronavirus and gone into quarantine. Mr Bakayoko tweeted that he had shown no symptoms before the test and urged citizens…
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Ivory Coast’s Defense Minister, Hamed Bakayoko, has tested positive for coronavirus and gone into quarantine. Mr Bakayoko tweeted that he had shown no symptoms before the test and urged citizens…
Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Protesters in Ivory Coast’s commercial capital, Abidjan, have destroyed a coronavirus centre that was being built in the district of Yopougon. Residents said authorities picked a crowded…
Chinese Billionaire and founder of Ali Baba Group, Jack Ma, has announced his second donation to African countries. Jack Ma in a statement via his Twitter handle revealed that a…
Former Marseille president, Pape Diouf, has died aged 68 after contracting coronavirus. The Senegalese was president between 2005 and 2009 when Marseille finished second in Ligue 1 twice and reached…
Tributes are being paid to world-renowned South African scientist Gita Ramjee, who has died from Covid-19-related complications. “She dedicated many years of her life to finding HIV prevention solutions for…
South Africa’s President, Cyril Ramaphosa, has launched a mass screening programme for coronavirus. On Monday evening, the president said 10,000 field workers would be visiting homes to screen people –…
Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has announced the country’s first death from coronavirus. In a tweet, NCDC said the victim was a 67-year-old man who returned to the country…
A 30-year-old man has become the first person to die of coronavirus in Zimbabwe, state-owned broadcaster ZBC has tweeted. The Minister of Health and Child Care, Dr Obediah Moyo has…
The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control has begun tracing the contacts of Mohammed, the son of former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar who tested positive for Covid19. It was garnered that Mohammed…
Cape Town, South Africa. As the novel Coronavirus continues to spread across countries, the World Health Organisation and other medical agencies have harped on the need for regular hand wash…