Browsing: Covid-19

Researchers in Senegal have developed a $1 COVID-19 test kit and a $16 ventilator.

Zimbabwe’s lockdown is due to end in a week’s time. It has caused hardship for many. To date, just over 30 cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed.

Six Chinese who escaped from quarantine at Africana hotel in Kibuli, a Kampala city suburb have been arrested after attempting to flee out of the country to DRC. 

President Cyril Ramaphosa addressed the nation on Thursday evening to announce a five-level “risk-adjusted strategy” where the country will slowly ease lockdown restrictions starting 1 May

Zimbabwe has one of the lowest numbers of confirmed cases of Coronavirus, but there are questions as to whether or not these figures are an accurate reflection of the present situation.

Zimbabwe’s health system is being stretched even further by malaria outbreaks that have killed at least 131 people.