March 2020 theStar; The government has said it is projecting the confirmed cases of the COVID-19 might hit the 10,000 mark by the end of next month. The Director of Public Health Dr Patrick Amoth on Monday said according to the propositioning module, Kenya will likely record a total of …

March 2020 cannabisoffers; European and American medical journals published more than 100 articles on the therapeutic use of cannabis between 1840 and 1900. The first documented use of cannabis as a safe and effective natural therapy dates back to 2700 BC. Despite this fact, cannabis is most often linked with …

March 2020 theStar; The family of the first Kenyan to die of Covid-19 now says he passed screening checks at the airports and didn’t have any symptoms such as coughing, sneezing or fever. The family of the late Eng. Maurice Barasa Namiinda in a statement on Sunday said he was …

March 2020 BBCHealth;While swathes of Europe’s population endure lockdown conditions in the face of the coronavirus outbreak, one country stands almost alone in allowing life to go on much closer to normal. After a long winter, it’s just become warm enough to sit outside in the Swedish capital and people …

March 2020 theGuardian; There are now more than 2,400 confirmed cases of Covid-19 across Africa and growing warnings that the pandemic will cause major challenges for the continent’s under-resourced health services. World Health Organization officials have said the statistics are likely to significantly underestimate the true number of cases. There have …

March 2020 theStar; President Uhuru Kenyatta has ordered a curfew in Kenya from 7pm to 5am, effective Friday. “This will be in effect to limit the spread of the (corona)virus,” he said on Wednesday. There had earlier been speculation of a lockdown in Kenya, however, goverenment spokesman Cyrus Oguna dismissed …

March 2020 YahooNews; Italians, their country locked down with the world’s second-highest number of COVID-19 infections after China, are sounding a dire warning for other countries about what could be in store for them if they don’t take the pandemic seriously. Italy’s coronavirus infections have surpassed 24,000. Over the weekend, …

March 2020 DailyNation; Nurses at Mbagathi Hospital, which has one of the three largest isolation camps for coronavirus (Covid-19) cases, are on a go-slow. The healthcare professionals are citing lack of adequate coronavirus training and little support to protect their families who they go home to every evening after working near patients …

March 2020 StandardMedia; Ethiopia’s Health Minister Lia Tadesse has announced its first positive case of coronavirus in the country.A statement shared on Twitter says that the 48-year-old Japanese national arrived in Ethiopia on March 4 from Burkina Faso.“He is undergoing medical follow-up and is in a stable condition. Those who …

March 2020 BBCNews; Many countries are taking tough measures to crack down on the spread of coronavirus, including school closures, an end to mass gatherings and severe travel restrictions. But the UK has adopted relatively modest control measures. The differences can be partly explained by the fact some of these …