London, Dec. 14, 2020 (AltAfrica)-17 players of Egypt’s football youth team and their coach Rabie Yassin have tested positive for coronavirus ahead of facing Libya in the opening match of the North Africa championship on Tuesday, Egyptian Football Association board member Gamal Mohamed Ali revealed on Monday. The Egyptian team arrived in Tunisia on 8 ...

London, Dec. 7, 2020 (AltAfrica)-While multiple research studies show that Black and Hispanic patients are more likely to test positive for COVID-19, a team of investigators at NYU Langone Health has found that once hospitalized, Black patients were less likely to have severe illness, die, or be discharged to hospice compared to White patients. The ...

London, Nov. 30, 2020 (AltAfrica)-A Singaporean woman, who was infected with Covid-19 in March when she was pregnant, has given birth to a baby with antibodies against the virus, offering a new clue as to whether the infection can be transferred from mother to child. The baby was born this month without Covid-19, but with ...

London, Nov. 13, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah has tested positive for Covid-19, the Egyptian FA has confirmed. The Egyptian FA said on Twitter that Salah had returned a positive test, although the 28-year-old is not showing any symptoms. The governing body added the rest of the Egypt team were negative for coronavirus. Egypt host ...

London, Oct. 29, 2020 (AltAfrica)-French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel ordered their countries back into lockdown on Wednesday, as a massive second wave of coronavirus infections threatened to overwhelm Europe before the winter. World stock markets went into a dive in response to the news that Europe’s biggest economies were imposing nationwide ...

London, Oct. 23, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Germany is making preparations to start vaccinations against the coronavirus before the end of the year, Bild daily report on Friday. The Health Ministry plans to create 60 special vaccination centres to ensure the vaccines can be stored at the proper temperature and has asked the country’s 16 federal states to ...

London, Oct. 21, 2020 (AltAfrica)-A Namibian politician claiming Covid-19 does not exist has suspended his father’s funeral, local media reported on Tuesday. According to a report in the daily newspaper The Namibian, Republican party leader, Henk Mudge, said the novel coronavirus officially known as Covid-19 was carefully planned by a small group of greedy people ...

London, Oct. 19, 2020 (AltAfrica)-South Africa’s health minister, Zweli Mkhize, and his wife have tested positive for COVID-19, his office said late on Sunday. “I am now in quarantine at home and both my wife and I remain optimistic that we will fully recover from this virus,” Mkhize was quoted as saying in the statement. ...

London, Oct. 17, 2020 (AltAfrica)-South Africa announced 61 more Covid-19 related deaths and 2 019 new infections on Friday night, which take the death toll in the country to over to 18 370, and infections to seven hundred thousand, two hundred and three (700, 203.) The number of recoveries in the country stands at 629 ...

London, Oct. 6, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The World Health Organization, WHO has estimated that 10% of the world has been infected by the coronavirus – way more than has been recorded – as it mulled speeding up internal reforms. READ ALSO: ETHIOPIAN AIRLINES UNVEILS COVID-19 INSURANCE COVER FOR PASSENGERS To date, more than 35 million cases of ...