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About 13.4% of those who tested for the virus were infected. South African daily infection rate peaked in mid-December

Many Western governments are relaxing public health guidelines. But here in Ghana and elsewhere in Africa, officials are still trying to ramp up primary vaccinations.

Health Minister Joe Phaahla told a briefing that although hospitalisations were picking up there was so far no dramatic change in admissions to intensive care units or deaths.

South Africa is seeing a rapid rise in Covid-19 cases driven by yet another version of the coronavirus, health experts say.

The global pandemic has pushed more than 55 million Africans into extreme poverty and reversed two decades of hard work in poverty reduction on the continent.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has placed a popular African destination in its "high" Covid-19 risk category for travellers.

Elections postponed due to the outbreak of COVID-19 (coronavirus disease) span the globe.

The pandemic has been less deadly than elsewhere, but African economies have suffered a double blow due to graft.

Confirmed cases of SARS-CoV-2 have been increasing in South Africa in recent weeks. This has been largely driven by two offspring – known as the BA.4 and BA.5 sub-lineages – of the Omicron variant

The education system has severely suffered worldwide during the Covid-19 pandemic and extensive measures are needed for transformation; the United Nation revealed.