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Country Director for CHAI Mr Gerald Macharia said 2,000 rapid antigen testing kits will be donated to Nakuru County to kick start the testing. “CHAI will also support the training of 60 Medical Lab Technologists on the Covid-19 Rapid Antigen testing,” he said. Rapid antigen testing is a diagnostic test that directly detects the presence or absence of a specific protein (antigen) that causes Covid-19. The technology does not require a laboratory for the processing of results, which are proce...

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has raised the COVID-19 alert for Barbados to Level Four: Very High. This is the highest alert level ranking

Tourist hotspot Seychelles is welcoming back US travelers - but only those with the COVID-19 vaccine Brittany ChangJan 26, 2021, 01:18 IST Anse Source dArgent beach in the Seychelles.christian_b/Shutterstock The COVID-19 vaccine to visit the country. Travelers from its list of approved countries, or people flying in via private aircrafts, are also allowed. Tourism-depednent countries around the world are desperately looking for ways to increase travel in 2021. Seychelles is reopening its bord...

Teachers warned over private lessons Mashonaland West Bureau Defiant teachers and parents have been warned against exposing children to Covid-19 through conducting private lessons. Zimbabwe is presently on Level Four lockdown following a rapid surge in Covid-19 cases across the country, which hit over 1 000 for two days. Deaths are also mounting, making a strong case for citizens to observe the lockdown measures. But with schools closed to minimise the spread of Covid-19, some teachers are cond...

VALE of Glamorgan Council officers will team up with South Wales Police this weekend in Penarth following reports of groups gathering near businesses. Council officers will join the police to carry out inspections at the esplanade after residents and traders complained too many people were breaching Covid rules there. Under current Level Four restrictions people should not leave their house to socialise or travel by car for exercise, but there have been reports of groups gathering near bu...

Ongoing government support secured for isles businesses January 14, 2021 at 4:09 pm Orkney MSP Liam McArthur. Island businesses will have access to the same ongoing support as businesses elsewhere in Scotland, it has been confirmed, today, Thursday. This comes after Orkney MSP Liam McArthur sought reassurance on the matter from Scottish finance secretary, Kate Forbes. First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced on Tuesday that “top up” funding would be provided to allow businesses in level thr...

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon told the Scottish Parliament that further restrictions to limit the spread of Covid-19 will be brought in this weekend.

Zanu-PF Warns Detractors ZANU PF has warned some critics to stop lecturing the country’s leadership on implementing Covid-19 lockdown measures. Self-exiled G-40 members have on a number of occasions attacked the ruling party, the Government and the First Family as they seek to destabilise the country. Zimbabwe, like most countries, has imposed Level Four lockdown measures to curb the spread of the deadly Covid-19 pandemic which has killed more than a million globally to date. Some critics cla...

Review by Barry Didcock As well as being a novelist, playwright and co-editor of The Penguin Book Of New Black Writing In Britain, Courttia Newland co-wrote two of the five films in Steve McQueen’s acclaimed Small Axe anthology, which delved deep into the history of the black British experience in the 1970s and 1980s. Anyone expecting more of the same in A River Called Time can forget it, however: sprawling, ambitious, often thought-provoking and just as often baffling, Newland’s latest n...

The breach of the Capitol sparked young people’s belief that we can do better.