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As of 12 December 2022, Lagos had the largest number of Covid-19 cases with 104,204 lab-confirmed cases. ...

In Ghana, as of 21 October 2022, there have been 170,321 confirmed cases of Covid-19 with 1,460 deaths, reported to the World Health Organization. As of 21 October 2022, a total of 20.15 million vaccine doses have been administered. ...

The total number of laboratory-confirmed cases stood at 4,011,657 as of 31 Aug 2022. The World Health Organization (WHO) keeps a tally of global confirmed Covid-19 cases, which is updated daily.You can find the numbers per country here and here. ...

Herd immunity is the indirect protection from an infectious disease when a population is immune either through vaccination or immunity developed through previous infection. The share of people who need to be immune in order to achieve herd immunity varies with each disease. The proportion of the pop...

In a 28 January 2021 statement, The South African Health Products Regulatory Authority (SAHPRA) said, “to date there is insufficient evidence for or against the use of ivermectin in the prevention or treatment of COVID-19,” However, in the interim, SAHPRA will implement a compassionate use acces...

Yes. The International Monetary Fund is providing financial assistance and debt service relief to member countries facing the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Through its various lending facilities and debt service relief, it has made about $250 billion - a quarter of its $1 trillion lendin...

Yes. The International Monetary Fund is providing financial assistance and debt service relief to member countries facing the economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic. Through its various lending facilities and debt service relief, it has made about $250 billion - a quarter of its $1 trillion ...

As of 17 November 2021, the total number of individuals vaccinated in Mpumalanga stood at just over 1 million (1,420,542). ...

No. Legally, no one can be forced or coerced into taking the vaccine. This was affirmed by President Cyril Ramaphosa when he addressed parliament on 3 September 2021: “No one should be forced to be vaccinated. Instead, we need to use the available scientific evidence to encourage — repeat encour...