London, Feb. 12, 2021 (AltAfrica)-The number of Covid deaths in Africa have surged by 40% in the last month-January 2021 alone, the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed. The numbers push the continent’s total covid deaths stand at 97,299 and recoveries –3,256,433 since the first reported case there on 14 February 2020. More than 22,300 ...

London, Jan. 22, 2021 (AltAfrica)-The new covid-19 variant detected in South Africa has spread to Botswana, Zambia, The Gambia and Kenya, the World Health Organization (WHO) has said. Over 3.3 million confirmed #COVID19 cases on the African continent – with more than 2.8 million recoveries & 82,000 deaths cumulatively. Over 3.3 million confirmed #COVID19 cases ...

London, Jan. 10, 2021 (AltAfrica)-The number of new Covid-19 cases in South Africa went beyond the 20 000 mark for the fourth time this week, bringing the total of new infections for the week to 113 310.  On Saturday, 21 606 new cases were reported as the second surge of the pandemic continued.  READ ALSO: ...

 London, Jan. 9, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Pfizer Inc and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine appears able to protect against a key mutation in the highly transmissible new variants of the coronavirus discovered in Britain and South Africa, according to a laboratory study conducted by the U.S. drugmaker. The study by Pfizer and scientists from the University of Texas Medical ...

London, Jan. 8, 2021 (AltAfrica)-Britain already facing global isolation over a new covid-19 variant currently ravaging the country has thrown its anger over African saying travellers from countries near South Africa are to be banned from entering England to stop the spread of the South African Covid variant. Arrivals from Namibia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Botswana, as ...

London, Dec. 30, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The US state of Colorado has recorded what is reportedly America’s first case of the particularly infectious coronavirus variant that emerged recently in Britain, the governor said Tuesday. Today we discovered Colorado’s first case of the COVID-19 variant B.1.1.7, the same variant discovered in the UK,” state governor Jared Polis tweeted. READ ALSO: NIGERIA TO PUBLISH ...

London, Dec. 25, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Passengers from UK and South Africa arriving Nigeria are to be specially monitored in the country after Nigerian government ordered airport authorities to open a special register at the airports for specifically to track and ensure they present themselves for the COVID-19 test on day seven. The move was on the ...

London, Dec. 24, 2020 (AltAfrica)-Two cases of another new strain of COVID-19 linked to South Africa have been identified in the UK, Matt Hancock said. Speaking at a Downing Street press conference on Wednesday, the health secretary revealed the new variant “is yet more transmissible and it appears to have mutated further” than the one previously identified in ...

London, Dec. 23, 2020 (AltAfrica)-British drug maker AstraZeneca Plc told Reuters on Tuesday its COVID-19 vaccine should be effective against the new coronavirus variant adding that studies were under way to fully probe the impact of the mutation. “AZD1222 (AstraZeneca’s vaccine candidate) contains the genetic material of the SARS-CoV-2 virus spike protein, and the changes ...

London, Dec. 22, 2020 (AltAfrica)-The new covid-19 variant currently causing panic and concern in the United Kingdom and the European Union has been identified in Nigeria by scientists at the Africa Centre of Excellence for Genomics of Infectious Diseases (ACEGID), at the Redeemers University in Ede, Osun State. The new variant, detected in the UK ...