Covid-19

Cryptocurrency Omicron in frenzy over Covid-19 variant

Paris – Trading in the cryptocurrency Omicron exploded on Monday and its value gyrated after the World Health Organisation decided... Read more

30 Nov, 2021

Johannesburg – More African countries on Monday joined the rush to suspend air links with the south of the... Read more

30 Nov, 2021

Washington – President Joe Biden on Monday told Americans not to “panic” over the newly identified Covid variant Omicron and... Read more

30 Nov, 2021

Johannesburg – The Munster rugby team, stranded in South Africa after a member of the travelling party contracted Covid-19, have... Read more

30 Nov, 2021

Nairobi – Rwanda has barred direct flights to and from nine countries in southern Africa, joining a growing list of... Read more

29 Nov, 2021

Diamniadio – China’s president Xi Jinping on Monday pledged to offer one billion Covid vaccine doses to Africa, in a... Read more

29 Nov, 2021

Johannesburg – South Africa on Monday said it was “regrettable… (and) sad” that fellow African nations had joined a... Read more

29 Nov, 2021

Johannesburg – The newly-discovered Omicron variant is likely to fuel a surge in South Africa’s coronavirus cases that could see... Read more

29 Nov, 2021

Gaborone – Botswana, the only African country outside South Africa to have reported Omicron cases, said on Sunday it had... Read more

29 Nov, 2021

Brazzaville – The head of the World Health Organisation in Africa on Sunday urged countries to follow the science rather... Read more

29 Nov, 2021