Africa UN Knowledge Hub for COVID-19

COVID-19 has shown South Africans to be a caring and compassionte people, coming to each other’s assistance at the hour of the greatest need.

Covid-19 restrictions in South Africa end as President Cyril Ramaphosa promises the national state of disaster will also soon end.

After two years of pandemic, it is a happy ending compared to the catastrophic scenarios announced at the beginning.

Most African countries are pushing ahead with reopening travel and easing restrictions in a bid to move past the Covid-19 era.

As of April 4, 2022, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 11,422,130 while over 270,321,505 vaccinations have been administered across the continent.

Like in many countries, misinformation about Covid-19 has circulated widely in Morocco during the pandemic. Much of it came from the US and Europe.

The COVID-19 has greatly deteriorated the economies of countless African countries and the Sierra Leonian economy is no exception.

Citizens' experiences and perceptions spotlight insecurity in six countries.

The head of the UN World Health Organization on Thursday spoke out forcefully against “misinformation on social media and in the mainstream media”

Digital campaigning was one of the strategies used by the Africa Youth Partnership project team in influencing equitable recovery from the covid-19 pandemic in African countries.