African countries have secured 90 million test kits for the novel coronavirus for the next six months, a regional disease control body said on Thursday,… Read More »African Countries Secure 90 Million Coronavirus Test Kits For Next Six Months
American biopharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences on Monday said its antiviral drug offered a modest benefit to patients with moderate COVID-19 symptoms. The drug forms part of the World… Read More »WHO Monitors Remdesivir As Possible COVID-19 Treatment Drug
The European health regulator has vowed to conduct a speedy review of Gilead Sciences’ potential COVID-19 drug, remdesivir, but said it has not yet received… Read More »Eu Regulator Promises Speedy Review Of Potential Covid-19 Drug Remdesivir
A craze for homebrewing has swept across South Africa since the government banned the sale of alcohol to help hospitals and keep order during the… Read More »South Africans Quench Thirst With Moonshine During Lockdown Ban
Global coronavirus cases surpassed 5 million on Wednesday, with Latin America overtaking the United States and Europe in the past week to report the largest… Read More »Global Coronavirus Cases Surpass 5 Million, Cases Rise In South America
Now that Lesotho’s Tom Thabane is a former prime minister and no longer in office, his constitutional court application challenging the murder charges of his… Read More »Thabane’s Murder Charges In Spotlight After Resignation As Lesotho PM
President Donald Trump threatened on Monday to permanently freeze US funding to the World Health Organization unless “substantive improvements” were made within the next 30… Read More »Trump Threatens To Permanently Freeze WHO Funding
When the head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) returned from a whirlwind trip to Beijing in late January, he wanted to praise China’s leadership… Read More »Caught In Trump-china Feud, Who Leader Under Siege
Embattled Lesotho Prime Minister Tom Thabane is reportedly refusing to resign until the date that he set for himself, the end of July. But constitutional… Read More »Lesotho Pm Thabane Reportedly Refusing To Step Down
A mental illness crisis is looming as millions of people worldwide are surrounded by death and disease and forced into isolation, poverty and anxiety by… Read More »UN Warns Of Global Mental Health Crisis Due To COVID-19 Pandemic