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[34] [35] The first confirmed case in sub-Saharan Africa was announced in Nigeria at the end of February 2020. [36] Within three months, the virus had spread throughout the continent, as Lesotho, the last African sovereign state to have remained free of the virus, reported a case on 13 May 2020.
Some of the countries that did not enact lockdowns during 2020, did so later in the pandemic. In Malawi, a proposed lockdown by the government was delayed by the High Court throughout 2020, [392] until a state of emergency was declared and the country entered a lockdown in January 2021 in response to a worsening outbreak. [393]
People practicing social distancing during a shopping outing in South Africa, May 2020 After the discovery of the 501Y.V2 variant on 18 December 2020, and the rise of cases after surpassing 1 million people testing positive, it was announced on 28 December that the country would go back to a partial lockdown level 3 to reduce the speed of the ...
Earlier this week, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced that the mpox outbreaks were a public health emergency, with more than 500 deaths, and called for international ...
WHO had already released $1.45 million from its emergency fund to support the response to mpox in Africa, but said it needs an initial $15 million to fund that response.
The U.N. refugee agency voiced concern at the "rapidly deteriorating" situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Friday, saying the war had left around 350,000 displaced people with ...
As of 12 April, nearly 300 million people, or about 90 per cent of the population, are under some form of lockdown in the United States, [441] more than 50 million people are in lockdown in the Philippines, [442] about 59 million people are in lockdown in South Africa, [443] and 1.3 billion people are in lockdown in India.
Torrential downpours and flooding have killed at least 15 people and four others remain missing in Chongqing, southwest China, state-run news agency Xinhua reported Wednesday, citing local ...