Photo/Somali Times At a joint press conference in Mogadishu, members of the Somali Cabinet and military officials warned the Somali public against rallies due to the devastating effects of Covid-19 on the country. Somali Minister of Information Abukar Osman Dubbe along with Minister of Health and Safety, saying that by preventing the risk the government

Photo/Somali Times The Minister of Health of the Federal Government of Somalia, Dr. Fowsio Abikar Nur, has issued a stern warning against the risk of resurgence of Covid-19. Somalia’s health minister said, according to figures released this month, the disease is still on the rise and there are more deaths. Dr. Fowsio also shared with

Photo/Somali Times The mayor of the Benadir region in Mogadishu, Omar Mohamud Mohamed had a private meeting with the district commissioners of the Benadir region has ordered the immediate resumption of the resurgence of the Covid-19 epidemic awareness campaign. The meeting was attended by the deputy chairperson of social affairs and awareness of Benadir regional

Cars and trucks from the Czech Republic stand one behind the other at a rest area on highway 17 during border controls by the German Federal Police in Bad Gottleuba, Germany, Sunday, Feb. 14, 2021. Germany has implemented tighter border controls on its frontiers with the Czech Republic and Austria’s Tyrol province in an effort

Cases have more than doubled in 22 countries in the region over the past month. When the first human case of COVID-19 was reported in December 2019, one of the most significant concerns in curtailing the pandemic’s spread was Africa. The World Health Organization (WHO) and stakeholders expressed concerns on how Africa will cope with

Photo: Credit Associated Press GENEVA (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization said Monday the emergence of new COVID-19 variants has raised questions about whether or not existing vaccines will work, calling it “concerning news” that the vaccines developed so far may be less effective against the variant first detected in South Africa.

Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine are pictured in a vaccination center as part of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) vaccination campaign in Geneva, Switzerland February 3, 2021. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo LONDON (Reuters) – Britain on Thursday launched a trial to assess the immune responses generated if doses of the COVID-19 vaccines from Pfizer Inc and AstraZeneca

Pharmacist Bhaveen Patel administers a dose of the Oxford/AstraZeneca covid vaccine to Joshua Labor at a coronavirus vaccination clinic held at Junction Pharmacy in Brixton, London, Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. (Dominic Lipinski/PA via AP) LONDON (AP) — Britain’s health chief says a new study showing that a single dose of the COVID-19 vaccine developed by

Credit: Associated Press President John Magufuli. DODOMA, Tanzania (AP) — Tanzania’s health ministry says it has no plans in place to accept COVID-19 vaccines, just days after the president of the country of 60 million people expressed doubt about the vaccines without offering evidence. Health Minister Dorothy Gwajima told a press conference in the capital,

A nurse holds a bottle of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine at the Nurse Isabel Zendal Hospital in Madrid, Spain, Monday, Feb. 1, 2021. (AP Photo/Bernat Armangue) By SAMUEL PETREQUIN BRUSSELS (AP) — Seeking to rebound from heavy criticism of its slow coronavirus vaccine rollout, the European Union said Monday that 18.5 million vaccine doses have