Ahead of the roll out of South Africa’s mass COVID-19 vaccination programme, security experts have warned of a thriving black market for vaccine certificates, fake negative COVID test results and even vaccines on the Dark Web.
A report in the...Africa
The Kwazulu-Natal Research Innovation and Sequencing Platform (Krisp) team has discovered the most mutated COVID-19 variant, yet, in Angola on travellers from Tanzania, a country that has denied COVID’s existence.
Experts are calling for...Africa
Tanzania’s new president announced plans to appoint a panel of experts to advise her on how best to curb the spread of the coronavirus, reversing her predecessor’s denialism of the pandemic. “We cannot isolate ourself as an island,”...Africa
Police in Tanzania have arrested four people on suspicion of spreading rumours on social media that President John Magufuli is ill, reports BBC News. The 61-year-old leader has not been seen in public for more than two weeks.
Prime Minister...Africa
Under pressure from the WHO, Human Rights Watch and calls for Tanzania's expulsion from the Commonwealth, President John Magufuli's government may be budging from its COVID-19 denialist position, reports MedicalBrief.
At the weekend, at a...Africa
Zimbabwe’s Finance Minister Mthuli Ncube has backtracked on his statement that the coronavirus vaccine will not be free for the country’s citizens, reports Anadolu Agency. In an interview with the State online broadcaster, the Zimpapers...Africa
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has urged Tanzania to follow science, a day after its president said COVID-19 vaccines were dangerous and unnecessary if people trusted God and used alternative remedies such as inhaling steam.
Polity reports...Africa
Zimbabwe Information Secretary Nick Mangwana who sparked a row by suggesting that some Zimbabwe government ministers and officials who have succumbed to COVID-19 could have been deliberately killed by opposition-supporting doctors.
Following the...Africa
A man who posed undetected as a doctor at one of Zimbabwe's biggest hospitals for seven months has been arrested and charged with fraud and impersonating a public official.
Admire Chisi, 25, was denied bail when he appeared before Harare...Africa
Zimbabwe is seeking to tighten the rules on how a certificate which its doctors need in order to get work abroad is issued as medical professionals flee the country’s collapsing economy. New Zimbabwe reports that the the Zimbabwe Senior Hospital...Africa
Two radical modifications in the training of medical doctors in Zimbabwe have caused a ruckus in the medical fraternity where they have met with fierce disapproval, reports University World News.
Starting in August, the University of Zimbabwe has...Africa
Seven babies were stillborn, out of eight Caesareans performed at Harare Central Hospital in Zimbabwe on Monday night after urgent treatment was delayed because of staffing issues, reports the BBC.
In a statement, Zimbabwe's Society of...Africa
Public hospitals in Madagascar said they’ve reached full capacity and will only accept patients with the most severe forms of COVID-19 as cases surge in the Indian Ocean island nation, reports Bloomberg. President Andry Rajoelina earlier this...Africa
Egypt is arresting medics who speak out about the country's coronavirus crisis, Business Insider says according to multiple reports. The arrests come after the country's prime minister suggested it was "negligence and mismanagement" from the medical...Africa
Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sacked Health Minister Obadiah Moyo for “conduct inappropriate for a government minister”. The dismissal was confirmed by presidential spokesperson Misheck Sibanda who said Moyo had been dismissed...Africa
Zimbabwe has raised salaries for all government workers by 50%, hours after nurses stopped work at a major government hospital in the capital Harare, demanding to be paid in US dollars because of soaring inflation. Daily Maverick reports that...
