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<p>The World Health Organisation says the world is at the early stages of another wave of Covid-19 infections and death, and they have called for top economies to step up by sharing vaccines. Joining CNBC Africa for more is Dr Francis Ohanyido, President of the West Africa Academy of Public Health.</p>


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<p>As Africa finds itself in the midst of a third wave, the vaccine roll-out is picking-up speed. Almost 12 million people are now fully vaccinated; however, it is still less than one percent of Africa’s population.Joining CNBC Africa for more is Doctor Thierno Balde, Programme Manager for Operational Partnerships at the World Health Organisation in Africa.</p>


Africa in the midst of a COVID-19 third wave

Africa in the midst of a COVID-19 third wave, says WHO

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<p>The World Health Organisation has continuously called on vaccine manufacturing countries to waive COVID-19 patent rights, but this is taking longer than it should, leaving many in the developing world with little or no access to the vaccines. So why should this be a learning lesson for Africa&#8217;s vaccine manufacturing potential? CNBC Africa spoke with the World Health Organisation Coordinator for Vaccines Development in Africa, Doctor Richard Mihigo for more.</p>


WHO: World faces ‘moral crisis’ over vaccine sharing

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<p>Earlier this week, heads of state and leading figures on the continent convened for a virtual summit to discuss ways on how best Africa can achieve public health security.</p>


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<p>The World Health Organisation has raised concerns over a possible resurgence of the Ebola virus disease, as Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo report cases. This comes at a time when health systems in Africa are already stretched from the coronavirus pandemic. Joining CNBC Africa for more on this developing story is Dr Francis Ohanyindo, President of the West Africa Academy of Public Health.</p>


WHO: New Ebola outbreak to further stress health systems

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<p>As countries prepare for eventual COVID-19 vaccines, experts caution that falling immunization coverage could lead to outbreaks of other vaccine-preventable diseases, could this lead to future further breakouts that could prove costly to many African economies? DR. Phionah Atuhebwe, The Regional New Vaccines Introduction Officer World Health Organisation spoke to CNBC Africa for more.</p>


COVID-19: How the pandemic has exacerbated risks of other immunisable diseases

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<p>After three consecutive years of no recorded outbreak of polio, the World Health Organisation says Nigeria&#8217;s wild polio-free status has been accepted by the Africa Regional Certification Commission (ARCC). A delegation from the World Health Organisation will present the certification to Nigeria&#8217;s President Buhari today. Anisur Rahman Siddique, Head of Immunization and Health Systems at UNICEF joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


Nigeria to receive polio free certification from the World Health Organisation

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<p>Energy has a critical role for the delivery of health services. However, it is not adequately recognised as evidenced by the fact that only 28 per cent of health facilities in Sub-Saharan Africa have access to reliable electricity.</p>


WHO: This is how electricity shortage impacts healthcare delivery in Africa


<p>South Africa’s Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has issued guidelines for a mandatory Code of Practise to companies in the mining industry on managing the <a href="https://www.cnbcafrica.com/videos/2020/05/19/adeosla-adeduntan-on-covid-19-the-future-of-banking-in-africa/">COVID-19</a> pandemic according to the terms of the Mine Health and Safety Act.</p>



<p>This will assist employers in the mining sector to establish and maintain a COVID-19 prevention, mitigation and management programme, according to a statement by the DMRE.</p>



<p>The following statement provides more details:</p>



<p><strong>DMRE PUBLISHES MANDATORY CODE OF PRACTICE TO FIGHT COVID-19</strong></p>



<p>The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) has published guidelines for a mandatory Code of Practice (COP) for the mitigation and management of COVID-19 in the mining industry. The guidelines are issued in terms of section 49(6) of the Mine Health and Safety Act, 1996, after consultation with the Mine Health and Safety Council inluding a process of public comments to the draft guidelines. The objective of this guideline is to assist employers as far as reasonably practicable to establish and maintain a COVID-19 prevention, mitigation and management programme. This is to ensure that mine employees returning to work and any other persons at mines, are protected from transmission of the Coronavirus at the workplace, and where reasonably practicable, in the community, whilst providing guidance to all stakeholders regarding their roles and responsibilities in the management of the virus.</p>



<p>All mining operations are required to prepare and implement a Code of Practice on the COVID-19 pandemic that complies with any relevant guidelines and instructions issued by government, including:</p>



<ol class="wp-block-list" type="a"><li>Regulations issued in terms of section 27(2) of the Disaster Management Act, 2002</li><li>Directions issued by the Minister of Mineral Resources and Energy in terms of regulation 10(8) of the regulations issued in terms of section 27(2) of the Disaster Management Act No 57 of 2002</li><li>Guiding principles on the management of Covid-19 in the South African Mining Industry (SAMI)</li><li>Guidelines developed by the World Health Organisation (WHO), National Department of Health (NDoH), and the National Department of Employment and Labour (NDEL)</li></ol>



<p>Failure by the employers to prepare and implement the mine&#8217;s COP in line with the guidelines constitutes a criminal offence and a bridge of the MHSA. The gazetted guidelines can be accessed and downloaded on government gazette website, or <a href="http://www.energy.gov.za">www.energy.gov.za</a>  and  <a href="http://www.dmr.gov.za">www.dmr.gov.za</a></p>



<p><strong>Issued by the Department of Mineral Resources and Energy</strong></p>



<p>For more coverage on COVID-19 visit: <a href="https://www.cnbcafrica.com/covid-19/">https://www.cnbcafrica.com/covid-19/</a></p>


Clarification on COVID-19 “hotspots” as SA moves to level 3 lockdown

SA’s DMRE publishes COVID-19 guidelines for mining industry

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<p>The race for a Covid-19 vaccine has begun as the U.K and U.S have already started working on the first batches of vaccine trials. But the rest of the world is not far behind in vaccine research either  as earlier this week South Africa’s health minister Zweli Mkhize pronounced that the country’s participation in the Public Health Emergency Solidarity Trial created by the World Health Organisation. Mkhize stated that participation in the trials benefit South Africa from being at the forefront of accessing approved vaccines and adding our expertise to the global body of knowledge around Covid-19. Shabir Madhi, Professor of Vaccinology at the University of Witwatersrand joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


Understanding SA’s role in the race to find COVID-19 vaccine


<p>(Reuters) &#8211; The World Health Organization has warned of the risk that COVID-19 could overwhelm strained public health systems in sub-Saharan Africa. Here is a selection of measures countries are taking to prepare for the virus and limit its spread.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">SOUTH AFRICA </h3>



<p>With more cases than any other country in sub-Saharan Africa, South Africa is barring entry to foreign travellers&nbsp;coming from or transiting through&nbsp;high-risk countries including Italy, Iran, South Korea, Spain, Germany, France, Switzerland, the United States, the United Kingdom and China, according to an advisory issue by the foreign ministry on Tuesday. </p>



<p>Travellers who arrived from these countries since mid-February must report for testing. Those arriving from medium-risk countries – Portugal, Hong Kong and Singapore – will undergo high intensity screening. </p>



<p>South Africans are advised to cancel or postpone all non-essential foreign travel.&nbsp;The government has also ordered schools to close early for the Easter break and will prohibit gatherings of more than 100 people. </p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">NIGERIA </h3>



<p>Africa’s most populous nation has stepped up surveillance and is preparing for the possibility of an influx of patients.  </p>



<p>Lagos, the biggest city with some 20 million people, could handle 2,000 cases, said Bamidele Mutiu, who heads a regional biosafety team. To do this, they would need to use two camps previously housing people displaced by violence, he said. </p>



<p>Authorities are checking the temperature of anyone who arrives at Nigeria’s airports, ports and land borders. </p>



<p>Those coming from high-risk countries such as China, Iran, Italy and Spain are asked to self-isolate for 14 days, said Tarik Mohammed, a technical advisor at the Niger Centre for Disease Control. If they develop symptoms, a laboratory team will visit them and collect a sample for testing. </p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">KENYA </h3>



<p>The East African country is suspending travel from any nation with reported COVID-19 cases.  </p>



<p>Only Kenyan citizens, foreigners with residence permits and United Nations workers will be allowed to come in, provided they proceed on self-quarantine, the government said this week. </p>



<p>Schools and universities are closing, and public minibuses are providing hand sanitizer. </p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">ETHIOPIA </h3>



<p>Ethiopian Airlines said on its website that medics stationed at Addis Ababa Bole International Airport, a key regional transit hub, carry out continuous health screenings 24/7. </p>



<p>The government in the Horn of Africa country has closed schools nationwide and offered to transport people on government buses to ease congestion on public transport. </p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">RWANDA </h3>



<p>The East African country is flooding its capital, Kigali, with portable sinks for hand-washing at bus stops, restaurants, banks and shops. Schools, universities, churches and courts are closed nationwide. Some flights are suspended. </p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">CAMEROON </h3>



<p>From Wednesday, Cameroon, in central Africa, will close land, air and sea borders indefinitely, the government said in statement on Tuesday. International flights will be grounded, with the exception of cargo planes. Schools and restaurants will shut, and gatherings of more than 50 people are banned. </p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">LIBERIA </h3>



<p>The West African country is applying lessons learned fighting a devastating Ebola outbreak in 2014-15.  </p>



<p>“We were one of the first countries to start enhanced screening at the airport on Jan. 25,” said&nbsp;Mosoka P. Fallah, acting director general of the National Public Health Institute of Liberia. </p>



<p>More than 200 people have been trained as field epidemiologists and check for diseases in all 90 districts, said Tolbert Nyenswah, senior research associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in the United States and former incident manager for Liberia’s Ebola response. </p>



<p>“If there is a case of a suspected disease, a sample is sent to a lab and tested.” </p>



<p>There are hand-washing stations at public places including stores, shops, schools, hospitals, restaurant and government offices. </p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">SENEGAL </h3>



<p>Has been taking all passengers’ temperatures since Jan. 28 and asks for contact details, so officials can reach them if someone else on the plane tests positive, a spokesman for Dakar airport said. </p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">GHANA </h3>



<p>Has implemented some of the most stringent measures in West Africa with a mandatory 14 days of quarantine for all people arriving from abroad. Travelers from countries with over 200 cases of coronavirus are barred from entering the country unless they are Ghanaian citizens or residents.</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">MAURITANIA </h3>



<p>After confirming its first case on March 13, the West African country closed the international airport, suspended teaching in schools and universities, and banned weekly markets.  </p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">MADAGASCAR </h3>



<p>One of the world’s poorest countries, the island nation has suspended all flights for 30 days, a blow to its tourism industry. </p>



<p>(Reporting by Africa bureaux)</p>



<p>This article was first published on Reuters Africa <a href="https://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN2150U6-OZATP">https://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN2150U6-OZATP</a> and is republished with its permission.</p>


FACTBOX: What Africa is doing to fight coronavirus


<p>Report by Josiane Kouagheu, Juliette Jabkhiro and Aaron Ross</p>



<p>YAOUNDE/DAKAR (Reuters) &#8211; When a passenger arriving from Brussels at Cameroon’s Yaounde Nsimalen airport on Saturday was found to have a temperature, health officials say he was whisked to a hospital and diagnosed inside four hours as the country’s fourth case of coronavirus.</p>



<p>The central African country was doing more generalised screening for disease long before China revealed the new virus that has killed around 7,000 people globally. Along with other countries on the continent, it hopes its experience guarding against Ebola and other epidemics will help its health system cope with a pandemic that could quickly overwhelm it. </p>



<p>“We have cases that were not caught by the measures in France and Italy that were caught here,” Georges Alain Etoundi Mballa, who runs the health ministry’s epidemic response, told Reuters, describing the screening as a “spying network”. </p>



<p>“Epidemics come and go, but we keep on the surveillance.” </p>



<p>The virus now ravaging Europe has appeared in at least 26 out of 49 countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In most of them the recorded cases are still in single figures and have come in from abroad &#8211; notably Europe &#8211; rather than emerging at home. [nL8N2BA5PT] </p>



<p>The stakes are high &#8211; if the disease gets into Africa’s poorest areas, squalid, cramped conditions could cause it to spread at lightning speed. </p>



<p>Hospitals are already overburdened with cases of measles, malaria and other deadly infectious diseases, and conflicts have displaced hundreds of thousands of people and destroyed infrastructure. </p>



<p>Asking patients to self-quarantine at home is not practical in many areas, where families cram into a single room, share a communal tap or latrine, and survive on daily earnings. </p>



<p>“Africa should brace itself for a serious challenge,” John Nkengasong, head of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said on March 11. “I still believe containment is possible, but only with extensive testing and surveillance.”</p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">EBOLA EXPERIENCE </h3>



<p>In some places that looks all but impossible. </p>



<p>In South Sudan, devastated by a five-year civil war, the government has just 24 isolation beds, said Dr. Angok Gordon Kuol,&nbsp;incident manager for the outbreak at the Ministry of Health. </p>



<p>He said public officials were trying to encourage hand-washing, but many in the impoverished East African nation of 12 million people could not afford soap and did not have running water. </p>



<p>The health ministry in Burkina Faso, which is under siege from jihadist groups linked to Islamic State and al Qaeda, said in a report last week that the country lacked the resources to deal with the outbreak. </p>



<p>Its border crossings have no sites to isolate suspected cases, and the West African country does not have enough skilled health workers, the report said. “This can result in high mortality rates and an increased risk of spreading the disease.” </p>



<p>Ebola killed more than 11,000 people in West Africa between 2013 and 2016, mainly in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone. It devastated communities but provided valuable lessons.  </p>



<p>The Africa CDC, set up by the African Union in 2017, has been working with the World Health Organization (WHO) to strengthen emergency coordination, improve testing and surveillance, and equip treatment centres. </p>



<p>“We know the fragility of our system, and because of that, when the outbreak was declared, the countries just went into action,” said Mary Stephen, technical officer at the WHO’s Africa office. </p>



<p>The number of countries with labs able to diagnose COVID-19 in the region increased from two to 39 in just over a month. But that still leaves eight countries without. </p>



<p>Passengers arriving at major airports have temperatures checked and are asked to fill out travel questionnaires, and in Nigeria, a taskforce meets regularly to evaluate the risks. </p>



<p>“We will never be caught pants down,” said Bamidele Mutiu, who helped coordinate the West African country’s Ebola response and now runs a biosafety lab in Lagos.  </p>



<p>With three confirmed cases, Africa’s most populous nation is scrambling to increase the number of isolation beds and provide more specialized medical training and equipment at state hospitals.  </p>



<p>“Our health system is not as strong as we’d like it to be,” said Chikwe Ihekweazu, head of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control. “It is because we are a bit worried about our capacity to deal with a large outbreak that we are focused so intensively on prevention and early detection.” </p>



<p>Promoting good hygiene is a key part of that effort. But that is easier said than done. Less than half the population in 34 African countries have basic hand-washing facilities in their homes, according to a 2017 United Nations survey. </p>



<h3 class="wp-block-heading">KEEPING CLEAN </h3>



<p>In Senegal’s capital Dakar, announcements ring out through loudspeakers on passing cars urging people to wash their hands.  A group of school children in soccer shirts reels off highlights from a recent lesson &#8211; a crash course in preventing COVID-19. </p>



<p>But in their suburb, Pikine, where more than a million people live, the water is frequently cut off. </p>



<p>“Cleanliness is important, but here it’s not easy,” said Marcelle Diatta, a 41-year-old mother of four who lives in a two-bedroom apartment with four extended family members. </p>



<p>Khary Faye Sougou, head nurse at a local health centre in Pikine, where donkey carts jostle with delivery trucks on sandy alleyways, said she was encouraging residents to stockpile bottles of water; but not everyone could afford to do so.  </p>



<p>In Senegal, a West African country that has recorded 27 cases, medical staff said they had received limited protective equipment beyond extra gloves and masks. </p>



<p>“If we have a case, maybe I’ll go with a mask and my white coat, and after the visit I’ll throw them away,” Sougou said.  </p>



<p>Ousmane Gueye, head of the crisis unit at Senegal’s health ministry, said the government was deploying protective gear to facilities that need it.  </p>



<p>There are ample stocks of masks and gloves and enough beds to accommodate dozens more patients, according to health officials. However, there are no reserves of ventilators, which are in short supply across Africa.  </p>



<p>In South Africa, which has recorded 62 cases of the virus, medical services could be “swamped” if it spreads within the country’s vast shanty towns, Susan Cleary, a health economist at the University of Cape Town, said.  </p>



<p>“Transmission in an informal settlement is a disaster, an absolute disaster,” she said. </p>



<p>(Additional reporting by Christophe Van der Perre in Dakar, Alexis Akwagyiram and Angela Ukomadu in Lagos, Paul Carsten in Abuja, Omar Mohammed in Nairobi, Giulia Paravicini in Addis Ababa, Wendell Roelf in Cape Town, Joe Bavier in Abidjan and Henry Wilkins in Ouagadougou; Writing by Aaron Ross; editing by Edward McAllister, Alexandra Zavis and Philippa Fletcher)</p>



<p>This article was first published on Reuters Africa <a href="https://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN214328-OZATP">https://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFKBN214328-OZATP</a> and is republished with its permission.</p>


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<p>The severity and alarming levels of spread has prompted the World Health Organisation (WHO) to declare the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic. To discuss the impact on Nigeria&#8217;s economy is Femi Ojumu, Senior Partner at Femi Ojumu &amp; Co and Kyari Bukar.</p>


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<p>The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo has hit the one year mark and has seen a rise in cases. Despite this neighbouring Rwanda has been hailed by the World Health Organisation (WHO) for its preparedness, the country has taken a number of measures in an effort to prevent the epidemic from entering its territory. Malik Kayumba, Spokesperson for Ministry of Health Rwanda joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


Rwanda scales up Ebola prevention measures


<p>GENEVA (Reuters) &#8211; A Congolese woman who may have spread the deadly Ebola virus in Uganda did not go to Rwanda or the Congolese city of Goma while contagious, the World Health Organization said on Friday.</p>



<p>On Thursday, a report written by Uganda’s Health Ministry and published by the WHO’s Africa office had said the woman, a fishmonger, was suspected of going to Goma and Rwanda as well as Uganda before she died.</p>



<p>That raised fears of the outbreak spreading in Rwanda, which has never had a recorded case of Ebola.</p>



<p>But the WHO later withdrew the report and shut down the website where the daily updates were being posted, saying some of the information had not been verified. [nL8N24J2MF]</p>



<p>“We have investigated fully, and there was no travel to anywhere but Uganda,” WHO spokeswoman Margaret Harris said, adding that inaccurate conjecture had unfortunately found its way into the reports.</p>



<p>Healthworkers have mounted a massive campaign of vigilance and vaccination on key routes and borders in the region, and have screened almost 75 million people since the outbreak was declared 11 months ago. It has killed more than 1,700 people.</p>



<p>The 22-year-old woman was thought to have crossed the border between Uganda and Congo at an unmonitored crossing point, the deleted reports said. Harris said there no chance she had also slipped into Rwanda without being spotted.</p>



<p>“We are absolutely certain,” she said. “Our team&#8230; went across and talked to everybody and tracked it day-by-day. Now in her life she may have gone to Rwanda&#8230; but the important thing is she did not spend any time in Rwanda while symptomatic.”</p>



<p>It was extraordinary that a woman with end-stage Ebola had managed to cross the border and sell fish for a day, she added.</p>



<p>A lot of people at potential risk were now being followed up and people were being vaccinated on both sides of the border, Harris said. But it would take several days before it became clear if the woman, who vomited several times at a market, had infected anyone.</p>



<p>Other details in the withdrawn reports were also unverified, including information about a second Congolese Ebola patient travelling to the same market, and about a group of Ugandan healthworkers who may have been exposed to Ebola.</p>



<p>Reporting by Tom Miles; Editing by Mark Heinrich </p>


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<p>On Wednesday the 17th of July, the World Health Organisation&#8217;s Emergency Committee declared the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo a &#8220;Public health emergency of international concern&#8221;. Niniola Soleye, Managing Director of DRASA Health Trust joins CNBC Africa for more.</p>


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<p>The World Health Organisation says Africa alone accounts for 42 per cent of globally detected cases of substandard and fake drugs. Chinedum Chijioke, MD of Sproxil Africa joins CNBC Africa to explore ways technology is helping to solve this problem.</p>


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