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BY NIZBERT MOYO/RICHARD MUPONDE/HARRIET CHIKANDIWA FORMER Health and Child Care minister Henry Madzorera has rapped government and questioned its commitment to addressing the deadly COVID-19 pandemic after the number of deaths breached the 1 000 mark on Sunday. Madzorera, who was the Health minister during the Government of National Unity (GNU) from 2009 to 2013, said government should come up with the necessary policies to reduce the number of COVID-19 deaths in the country. He said citizens had been complying with the COVID-19 regulations, whose objective was to flatten the curve of infections, but poor strategies to deal with the pandemic had resulted in an escalation in the number of deaths. “The problem is that we are just on COVID-19 lockdown period (30 days), but we are not doing the other necessary things to ensure that the lockdown works and flattens the curve,” Madzorera said. “I think people are trying hard to isolate themselves, observe general personal hygiene, churches have stopped, we have less funeral gatherings, but people are being constrained by the government which is failing to do its bit in terms of massive testing and isolation,’’ he said. The former Health minister said the country did not have enough resources to get everyone tested, adding that prolonging the lockdown period would be suicidal as government had failed to provide social safety nets to the struggling public. “People will start dying from hunger and starvation without even violating the COVID-19 regulations and businesses are going to fold,” he said. Other health analysts said complacency and failure by the government to listen to advice had led to more COVID-19 deaths. Mpilo Central Hospital acting chief executive officer Solwayo Ngwenya said the country was paying a heavy price for allowing festivities and opening borders. “It started with the reopening of schools in October and then the opening of borders, allowing flights in. So inevitably, they brought in a lot of infections from South Africa over merrymaking at the Christmas holidays and the people disregarded COVID-19 regulations during the period holding by parties and so on,” he said. Itai Rusike, the executive director of the Community Working Group on Health, said politicians were not an essential service and should stay at home. “Politicians are not immune to COVID-19 infections, hence, must also take the disease seriously by adhering to all the World Health Organisation recommended guidelines and also stay at home during this lockdown in order to avoid further loss of lives. “Most of our politicians are old, while others have underlying medical issues which make them very vulnerable to COVID-19 infections,” Rusike said. Follow us on Twitter @NewsDayZimbabwe
The court enjoys global jurisdiction.
Investigators will now need the authorization of the court’s judges to open a probe. Bensouda appealed for support from Nigeria’s government.
She said the army has dismissed accusations against government troops after examining them.
Boko Haram strictly opposes formal education. In 2015, Nigeria enlisted the support of neighbors Chad, Cameroon and Niger to try and defeat the group.
While the joint operations made the group lose considerable territory, they have not been able to wipe it out.
The ICC has conducted investigations in several African countries. In Sudan, Libya and Ivory Coast, former leaders were indicted for genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity after the investigations.
By RALPH D. RUSSO AP College Football Writer Back in April, not long after the NCAA basketball tournament was canceled because of the coronavirus pandemic, the idea of moving the 2020 college football to the spring of 2021 already was being tossed around. A last resort is what it was called by conference commissioners and […]
Nairobi — The Ministry of Education says it will require additional funding to the tune of Sh429 million to facilitate the testing and provision of protective kits for the trainers and students in the country's Techinical and Vocational Training colleges in the post-COVID-19 period.
In documents presented before the Education Committee, the ministry said trainers, trainees and all staff will be required to be tested, have face masks, soaps, sanitizers and running water before they resume learning.
The Ministry of Health recently announced that testing for COVID-19 has been pegged at Sh1,000 at all public health facilities but it is estimated that the test cost between Sh4,000- Sh10,000 depending on where they are conducted.
The Ministry said it requires a further Sh3.8billion for the expected increase in enrolment of students.
According to the Ministry, the current allocation of Sh5.2 billion only caters for the 173,000 students against a projected enrollment of 300,000 students.
The coronavirus already took the life of a young South Carolina teacher and now her mother has also died from... View Article
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When you've got a higher net worth than Bill Gates, it's a big deal: Elon Musk is now the second-richest man in the world - and the top spot is in sight.
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A recent IMF report highlights the low expected growth of the traditional sectors in the economy, with negative growth most likely as GuySuCo continues to stumble.
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By Haley Herfurth UAB News When Shauntice Allen, Ph.D., was a child, she saw first hand her family practice what she now recognizes as community service, if even on a small scale. When her family would gather for holidays at her grandmother’s house in the Birmingham area, there was always an extra face or two […]
[Unicef] New York -- Children and adolescents account for 1 in 9 of reported COVID-19 infections, according to new analysis released ahead of World Children's Day
BY SIMBARASHE SITHOLE THREE traditional healers based in Mvurwi are in soup for defying lockdown regulations. The matter came to light at Guruve Magistrates’ Court yesterday when Phenias Gweshe (42), Evance Tauni (23) and Douglas Mandishona (37) appeared before magistrate Geraldine Mutsotso. The State led by Albert Mazhindu alleged that on August 2, the trio gathered 173 people at their shrine and police officers were informed of the gathering, leading to their arrest. The traditional healers said they were conducting cleansing ceremonies at the shrine.They were remanded out of custody to tomorrow for trial.
Refilwe Mtsweni-Tsipane is in deep trouble, after flouting COVID-19 rules on Sunday. However, it seems the Mpumalanga Premier ignored queues to 'mask-up'.
by Stephen G. Katsinas, Noel E. Keeney, Emily Jacobs, and Hunter Whann The Educational Policy Center at the University of Alabama issued the first of several reports on the Alabama Black Belt this week. The first report was on the impact of the declining population, as measured by the U. S. Census, in the Alabama […]
BY CAROLINE GLENN AND TREVOR FRASER ORLANDO SENTINEL/TNS SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched right on time at 7:27 p.m. Sunday on a historic mission with American astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi strapped inside the Crew Dragon capsule that will take them to the International Space Station. Iffy weather and a problem sealing the door of the capsule […]
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Bendure Communications—Volunteers of America, one of the oldest and largest human services nonprofits in the U.S., has frontline workers across the country who have been making a difference in the lives of hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable men, women and children during the […]
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The city of Kenosha, Wisconsin, is making preparations for demonstrations when a charging decision comes over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, authorities said on Sunday. Kenosha saw civil unrest and large demonstrations...
Art saves us from drowning in a sea of frustrating questions about identity, justice, and most pressing, race. These last few months have shown us that people are outraged by this country’s responses to racism, segregation, discrimination, and hate for Black people. There are generational trauma and anguish that weigh heavily on many of us, […]
David Baker Lewis currently serves as Of Counsel at Lewis & Munday, a Detroitbased legal firm with offices in New York City and Washington, D.C.
Lewis is a Co-Founder of the firm, which was established in 1972, and previously served as the firm’s Chairman and CEO.
With more than four decades of experience in municipal finance, Lewis is widely respected as an expert in municipal bonds, including revenue bonds, general obligation bonds, certificates of participation, bond offerings, bond purchase agreements, special tax bonds, state revolving bond funds, cash-flow borrowings, industrial development bonds and performing due diligence.
[New Frame] Emboldened by social protests, athletes are speaking out about issues, even refusing to play. But their actions are often at odds with those of the brands and sports associations they represent.
Education consultancy, Enrolled Jamaica, has made it possible for secondary students in Jamaica to receive information from all 80 universities registered with the University Council of Jamaica. The agency provides a host of free information to...
We'd wager that Lindiwe Zulu isn't the only person who has been worrying about the SRD R350 grant, given that half of all applicants haven't been paid.
The first day of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) was met with complaints of short notice and a student being prohibited from sitting the exam in Santa Rosa.
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U.S. regulators on Monday revoked emergency authorization for malaria drugs promoted by President Donald Trump for treating COVID-19 amid growing evidence they don’t work and could cause serious side effects.
Citing reports of heart complications, the FDA said the drugs’ unproven benefits “do not outweigh the known and potential risks.”
It didn't shorten the time of infection and it didn't reduce the risk of death
\t“The FDA looked at the data, the information that was available from the various studies that had been done, and concluded two things: one that there was no evidence that the drug actually benefited people.
The actions by FDA and NIH send a clear signal to health professionals against prescribing the drugs for coronavirus.
The FDA granted emergency use of the drugs for coronavirus patients in late March at the same time the U.S. government accepted 30 million doses of hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine that had been donated by two foreign drug manufacturers.
In the face of a pandemic that has hit Black Americans harder than almost any other group, while the nation continues to confront the toxic legacy of slavery and Jim Crow, two Georgia women have come together to build a community that will be a place free of oppression, “a tight-knit community for our people […]
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