Tag Archives: Covid 19

July 2020 YahooNews; The U.S. government has awarded Novavax Inc $1.6 billion to cover testing and manufacturing of a potential vaccine for the novel coronavirus in the United States, with the aim of delivering 100 million doses by January. The award announced by the U.S. Department of Health and Human …

May 2020 CNBC; South Africa will downgrade its coronavirus lockdown measures to level three on June 1, marking what President Cyril Ramaphosa called a “significant shift” in its approach to the pandemic. The move commences the full reopening of all manufacturing, mining, construction, financial services, professional and business services, information …

May 2020 BusinessDaily; About 34 frontline healthcare workers have tested positive for coronavirus, the Health ministry has said even as Kenya confirmed 14 new cases on Friday. The new Covid-19 cases bring the total national tally to 621. Ministry of Health Director General Dr Patrick Amoth said the healthcare workers, …

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 …

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 …

April 2020 BBCNews; Governments should not issue so-called “immunity passports” or “risk-free certificates” as a way of easing lockdowns, the World Health Organization (WHO) says. It said there was “no evidence” that people who had developed antibodies after recovering from the virus were protected against a second infection. Such a …

April 2020 theStandard; Between 800,000 and 2 million Kenyans could die from the novel coronavirus should the country get into a full-blown epidemic, a new study by scientists from Amref Health Africa says. According to the study released on Good Friday, most of the victims will be those aged above …

April 2020 TheStandard; A patient who tested positive for coronavirus is under ventilation support, Ministry of Health Director-General Dr Patrick Amoth has revealed.During today’s routine briefing on the status of Covid-19 in the country, Dr Amoth said the patient was doing well and should be out of the ventilator in …

April 2020 YahooNews; Microsoft (MSFT) founder and philanthropic billionaire Bill Gates is spending billions of dollars on seven possible vaccines for the coronavirus and the disease it causes, COVID-19, in hopes of finding an end to the pandemic. Through his philanthropic organization, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates revealed …