The world’s biggest producer is running out of COVID-19 vaccines

By CNN,

In India, the world's biggest vaccine producer, millions of people are waiting for Covid-19 vaccines amid a devastating second wave of infections. ...

AstraZeneca , coronavirus , COVID-19 , vaccine

MoH considers slowing down vaccination over supply concerns

By Dorcas Wangira,

Concern over the future supplies of COVID-19 vaccines has been mounting since India put a freeze on vaccine exports following a surge in its infection...

coronavirus

Senate delays debate on Biden’s $1.9 trillion COVID-19 bill while it is read aloud

By Reuters,

The U.S. Senate voted on Thursday to take up President Joe Biden’s $1.9 trillion coronavirus aid bill, but put off the start of a contentious debate...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , President Joe Biden , U.S Senate

First two cases of South African COVID-19 variant found in US

By VOA,

Health officials in South Carolina said Thursday that they had detected two cases of the South African COVID-19 variant, the first cases in the United...

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Chinese celebrity accused of abandoning two babies in the US

By Tonny Ndungu,

At first, it seemed like a classic celebrity romance. Zheng Shuang, 29, was one of China's most popular actresses after shooting to fame a decade a...

China promised Africa coronavirus vaccines were a priority. But where are they?

By CNN,

China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi concludes his tour of Africa this weekend without making a single concrete vaccine commitment to a continent hoping a...

china , coronavirus , vaccine

WHO team set to visit China to probe COVID-19 origin

By Reuters,

As a team from the World Health Organization (WHO) prepares to visit China to investigate the origins of COVID-19, Beijing has stepped up efforts not ...

COVID-19 , who

Britain to be first country to use Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine

By VOA,

Britain will be the first country to roll out the Pfizer - BioNTech coronavirus vaccine – the first Western nation to do so, the government announce...

coronavirus , Pfizer

COVID-19 pandemic drives spike in suicides in Japan

By CNN,

Eriko Kobayashi has tried to kill herself four times. The first time, she was just 22 years old with a full-time job in publishing that didn't pay ...

coronavirus , suicide

COVID-19 fuels surge in sexual violence, child marriage

By VOA,

Fresh out of university, Oluwaseun Ayodeji Osowobi was living in the southern Nigerian state of Rivers when she was sexually assaulted. A housemate...

coronavirus

One patient dies as KNH workers down tools, demand action on 2012’s salary review

By Erick Owenga,

Health Services at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) have been paralyzed, leaving one patient dead and several others seeking alternatives medical ...

KNH

KNH workers stage protest, slam SRC over failed salary review

By Erick Owenga,

Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) workers on Friday morning staged a peaceful protest accusing the Salaries and Remuneration Commission (SRC) of failin...

KNH , SRC , strike

KNH health workers give 7-day strike notice over failed salary review

By Nimrod Taabu,

Healthcare workers at the Kenyatta National Hospital (KNH) have threatened to go on strike from Monday next week, accusing the facility of failing to ...

Dr.Evanson kamuri , Healthcare workers , KNH , SRC , Treasury

Putin’s vaccine meets opposition from frontline workers in Russia

By CNN,

Vladimir Putin announced the approval of Russia's Sputnik-V coronavirus vaccine on August 11 amid much fanfare, saying it works "quite effectively" in...

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Stranded Kenyans living in Beirut ask gov’t to intervene

By Tonny Ndungu,

Scores of Kenyans who are currently living in the streets of Beirut have asked the government to intervene, end their plight and bring them back home....

Kenyans in Beirut

Kenya Airways resumes flights to 29 destinations after coronavirus curbs lifted

By Reuters,

Kenya Airways resumed international flights on Saturday, heading to 29 destinations for the first time since the routes were suspended in March due to...

coronavirus , Kenya Airways , kq , safe flights

COVID-19 in South Africa: How inequality, poverty undermined country’s response

By Reuters,

When coronavirus patients started arriving at South Africa’s government-run Thelle Mogoerane Hospital, workers scrambled to set up isolation wards t...

coronavirus , south africa

‘No tourist, no dollar’: Pandemic decimates livelihoods at Maasai Mara

By Reuters,

For more than 50 years, Loiman Letolo, 70, has peddled her colourful beaded necklaces and bracelets to safari-goers at the entrance gates to Kenya’s...

coronavirus , Maasai , Maasai Mara

Kenya to send officials to Lebanon consulate after CNN report on claims of abuse, exploitation

By CNN,

The Kenyan government will dispatch a fact-finding mission to the Lebanon consulate to look into reports of mistreatment, according to a government of...

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India records 1 million cases of COVID-19… and it’s the poorest who are hardest hit

By CNN,

India passed 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases Friday, after its health ministry reported a record 34,956 new infections in just 24 hours. As...

coronavirus , COVID-19 , India