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May 2020 BusinessTech; Minister of Health Dr Zweli Mkhize has announced that there are now 10,652 confirmed cases of coronavirus in South Africa. This is an increase of 637 from the 10,015 cases reported on Sunday. Dr Mkhize said on Monday (11 May), that the total number of deaths has …

May 2020 BusinessTech; Mixed messaging from government is confusing South Africans about what is coming next regarding the country-wide lockdown – but Intellidex analyst, Peter Attard Montalto, believes that people should prepare for a roller-coaster of level changes for at least the next 12 months. In an investor note published …

May 2020 CNN; Hundreds of factory workers at a fish processing plant in Ghana have tested positive for the coronavirus, the country’s president Nana Akufo-Addo said. All 533 of them contracted the virus from one worker at the factory in the port city of Tema, the president said in his public …

May 2020 BBcNews; Russian President Vladimir Putin says that from Tuesday the nationwide coronavirus lockdown will be eased and businesses will go back to work. He said the country’s “non-working period” imposed to curb the virus had lasted six weeks. The easing of restrictions will affect all sectors of the …

May 2020 AfricaNews; Republic of Congo confirmed receipt of COVID-Organics, the touted Malagasy herbal cure for coronavirus. The consignment, a donation from Madagascar, arrive in Brazzaville on Tuesday, May 5. Minister of State and director of cabinet at the presidency, Florent Ntsiba, received the donation from a delegation that flew …

May 2020 AfricaNews; By close of day May 5, there were 2950 confirmed cases of CIOVID-19 in Nigeria, 481 discharged and 98 deaths the NCDC reported. Of the 148 new cases, the breakdown were as follows: 43-Lago, 32-Kano, 14-Zamfara, 10-FCT, 9-Katsina, 7-Taraba, 6-Borno, 6-Ogun, 5-Oyo, 3-Edo, 3-Kaduna, 3-Bauchi, 2-Adamawa, 2-Gombe, …

May 2020 BusinessTech; Health minister Dr Zweli Mkhize has announced that there are now 7,572 positive Covid-19 cases in South Africa. This is up by 352 from the 7,220 Covid-19 cases announced on Monday. Dr Mkhize said in a statement on Tuesday (5 May), that a further 10 people have …

May 2020 YahooNews; More than 1 million people have recovered from the coronavirus, according to data from the Johns Hopkins University, a marker of success that can be traced to various factors. Ventilators, experimental drug treatments and a better understanding of the virus all have surely helped saved many lives. But there’s an …

April 2020 StatNews; On Wednesday Gilead Sciences, best known as a maker of HIV medicines, sent out a 177-word press release that led to a sigh of relief around the world: A study had shown that its experimental drug, remdesivir, had reduced the time it took for patients with Covid-19 to …

April 2020 BBCNews; More than 200,000 people worldwide have now died with the coronavirus, figures from Johns Hopkins University show. There are more than 2.8 million confirmed cases of Covid-19, according to the tally. It comes after the number of fatalities in the US passed 50,000, as Americans endure the …