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South Africa Shuts Schools Again As COVID-19 deaths soar to 6,000

Aoko Benjamin

  South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced the shutdown of public schools again barely two months after the schools were opened for academic activities. The closure which, according to him, is for a month from Monday, July 27, to limit the spread of coronavirus as the country grapples with surging infections. The country has now recorded 408,052 coronavirus cases, the fifth-highest in the world. More than 6,000 people have died from the virus. Rising infections have, according to a report by AFP, caused concern among teaching staff, with unions…

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Panic as Ghana’s Health minister contracts COVID-19

Tim Bauer

The Ghanian Minister of Health, Kwaku Agyemang Manu, who usually brief countrymen and women on how to prevent the COVID-19, has contracted the viral infection, raising apprehension among the people. He is currently on treatment at the University of Ghana Medical Center after testing positive for coronavirus, citinews reports. Kwaku Agyemang Manu’s status comes as a surprise due to his regular caution to Ghanaians in his bi-weekly press briefings on COVID-19 by the Information Ministry. Sources at the hospital who, according to citinews, confirmed the information said the Dormaa Central MP was…

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