Authorities in the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) say the country is recording a daily spike in COVID-19 cases. Dr Gilbert Ndziessi, the country’s Coordinator of the National Technical Committee for the Fight Against the COVID-19, said on Tuesday Jan. 4, that over 100 COVID-19 positive cases were recorded daily in the country as against 30 […]
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Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) authorities on Monday, Dec. 6, arrested a man suspected of making fake coronavirus vaccination cards. Destin Bockolet was arrested Monday morning in the country’s capital, Brazzaville, in possession of a quantity of fake COVID-19 vaccination cards as well as a command for a large quantity of the fake cards. Police sources […]
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The government of the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) has decided to impose new COVID-19 measures and to toughen existing ones. At a meeting of the National Coordination for the Management of the COVID-19 Pandemic held on Friday, Nov. 19, and presided over by President Denis Sassou N’Guesso, it was decided to extend the state of […]
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Nigeria has reported a high daily tally of 505 new confirmed COVID-19 cases and three deaths amidst a surge of the highly contagious Delta variant. According to an update by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Tuesday night, Aug. 3, the new infections brought total cases to 175,264, an 85 per cent increase […]
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All ministers of the Democratic Republic of Congo have been ordered to get themselves vaccinated with the British AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine as a way to encourage Congolese citizens to get themselves vaccinated. The first ministers to be vaccinated are: Minister of Public Health, Hygiene and Prevention, Jean-Jacques Mbungani and the Vice Minister of Public Health […]
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The authorities in the Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) are preparing to destroy over 100,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccines as a majority of Congolese have been avoiding taking the jab. Since the launching of a national COVID-19 vaccination campaign by President Denis Sassou N’Guesso on April 24, 2021, very few Congolese have turned up to […]
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The Republic of Congo (Brazzaville) government has decided to use town criers in Pointe-Noire city, the epicentre of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country, to educate the people on the need for vaccination. This follows the poor turn out of citizens to the vaccination campaign against the virus. According to Jean-Claude Etoumbakoundou, Secretary General of […]
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The Democratic Republic of Congo is to officially launch “a symbolic vaccination campaign” on March 12. This follows the validation of a deployment plan for the COVID-19 vaccine in the country after the reception of a consignment of 1.7 million doses of the vaccine Tuesday, March 2. The 1.7 million vaccines are the first lot […]
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Schools in the Democratic Republic of Congo will be reopened on Monday, Feb. 22, authorities said. DR Congo President Felix Tshisekedi, Friday approved a recommendation by the country’s multi-sectoral committee to fight against the COVID-19. The decision to reopen schools that were closed in Dec. 2020 followed an amelioration in the second wave of the […]
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The dusk-to-dawn curfew imposed in the Democratic Republic of Congo to force bars, night clubs and leisure joints to remain closed as a preventive measure against the COVID-19 pandemic would remain in place till further notice, the government said. According to an announcement made on Thursday by David Jolino Diwampovesa Makelele, the Congolese Minister of […]
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There has been a marked increase in the number of COVID-19 cases in the Democratic Republic of Congo within the past two weeks following the arrival of the second wave of the virus in the country. According to Dr Benoit Kebela Ilunga, member of the Technical Secretariat for the Fight Against the COVID-19 in DR […]
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Pierre Ngolo, President of Congo Brazzaville’s Senate, has called for rigour in the application of barrier measures against the COVID-19 in the country, as the disease has killed 94 persons so far in the country. Speaking in Brazzaville, the nation’s capital on Thursday, Ngolo admonished the national population to work on their consciences to engage […]
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