Gombe state information commissioner Alhassan Ibrahim Kwami insisted that the patients had “misunderstood their status” and did not require any drugs as they were asymptomatic.
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The World Health Organization has said that the herbal tea’s effects had not been tested, and there are no published scientific studies of the potion.
A strict lockdown imposed in March has not been uniformly respected, with local media reporting on nighttime gatherings of neighbours and collective prayers on roofs, beyond the view of street patrols. Drones have now been introduced to spot violators or make announcements.
Unlike the bill introduced last week at the House of Representatives, Senators were not allowed to see the content of the bill before or during its First Reading, triggering questions and opposition to its Second reading.
“We must therefore, basing ourselves on the limited preparations, start slowly and carefully to open up without undoing our gains so far in fighting COVID-19,” said President Yoweri Museveni.
The relaxation has triggered deep concern in some quarters, given how easily the coronavirus spread and the poor state of Nigeria’s health system.
Bus stations were full Monday, with masks mandatory in all public places. Buses were allowed to operate only at half capacity and only within Kigali.
The government suspended the director and a senior official of the national laboratory responsible for coronavirus testing after President John Magufuli denounced irregularities at the facility.
The promise to free the two reporters in detention came on the heels of the World Press Freedom Day 2020 being held globally to canvass freedom for journalists.
The International Monetary Fund has approved $411 million in emergency funding to Ethiopia to ease the negative economic effects and fallout from the coronavirus outbreak. According to an emailed statement,…