(Reuters) – Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) will add labels and warning messages on some tweets with disputed or misleading information about COVID-19, the company said on Monday,...
Madagascar is putting its self-proclaimed, plant-based “cure” for COVID-19 on sale and several countries in Africa have already put in orders for purchase, despite warnings from...
Since Kenya confirmed its first coronavirus case on March 13, authorities have adopted various measures to curb the spread of the virus while stopping short of...
The task of introducing a vaccine for the coronavirus faces an uphill struggle in Africa, where a flood of online misinformation is feeding on mistrust of...
A new study from Chinese scientists found coronavirus particles in the semen of 16% of the male patients studied. The virus was present in semen from...
Japan on Thursday authorised the antiviral drug remdesivir to treat coronavirus patients, the government said, with an eye to approving another medication Avigan this month. This makes...
By Wahiga Mwaura The hashtag #Money Heist has been trending on Twitter in Kenya in recent days – not because of the Netflix series which featured...
More than half of people, who had reported coronavirus or COVID-19 infection in the landlocked East African country of Uganda have recovered. Out of 98 pandemic...
The IMF approved the disbursement of US$739 million to be drawn under the Rapid Credit Facility to support the authorities’ response to the COVID-19 pandemic. The...
(Reuters) – A genetic analysis of samples from more than 7,500 people infected with COVID-19 suggests the new coronavirus spread quickly around the world late last...
This Covid-19 pandemic will show us things! One is never quite sure about the truth of some stories appearing in the media. There was a time...
The African Union (AU) has said it is in discussion with Madagascar over Covid Organics (CVO), a herbal drink that is said to prevent and cure...
By Kodi Barth This is going to light up people. Nobody is dying of Covid-19. People are dying with Covid-19. And there’s a difference. A big...
The ink is not yet dry on Ugandans’ social media demands to know how their parliament used an equivalent Sh260 million, allegedly to fight the raging...
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday stepped up a US campaign to hold China accountable for the spread of the deadly coronavirus, asserting there is...
Robots delivering meals, ghostly figures in hazmat suits and cameras pointed at front doors: China’s methods to enforce coronavirus quarantines have looked like a sci-fi dystopia...
By Sharri Markson For The Daily Telegraph China deliberately suppressed or destroyed evidence of the coronavirus outbreak in an “assault on international transparency’’ that cost tens...
Panic has gripped Taveta sub-county at the Kenya-Tanzania border after a middle-aged man reported to have escaped from a Covid-19 quarantine facility in Tanzania was admitted...
(Reuters) – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted authorization to Gilead Sciences Inc (GILD.O) for emergency use of its experimental antiviral drug remdesivir...
Kenya is now scaling up its testing capacity with a decentralized system away from the National Influenza Centre. Ministry of health has approved and listed laboratories...
