Covid Virus

ADF STAFF The U.S. government has pledged $1.8 million to help fight the spread of COVID-19 in South Africa, the U.S. Embassy & Consulates in South Africa said in a news release. The April 16 announcement brought to more than $2.7…

ADF STAFF U.S. mobile hospitals sent to Ghana, Senegal and Uganda are being used to treat growing numbers of coronavirus patients. The 7,427-square-foot mobile hospitals include 14 shelters, intensive care and radiology units, and 20…

ADF STAFF Ethiopia and the United Nations have opened a humanitarian transport hub at Addis Ababa airport to move supplies and aid workers across Africa to fight COVID-19. The arrangement, which includes the World Health Organization…

ADF STAFF Ghana is using delivery drones from U.S.-based startup Zipline to help test people for COVID-19 more quickly outside major cities. As of April 19, 2020, Ghana had 1,042 confirmed infections, and nine people had died from…

ADF STAFF Africans living in Guangzhou are tired of being evicted from their homes, forced into quarantine, blocked from hotels and barred from restaurants amid fears that they will spread the deadly COVID-19 in China’s third-largest…

A 57-year-old shrimp dealer at a Wuhan, China, “wet market” started out thinking she had a cold, but she became one of the first known people to contract SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, in December 2019. Doctors said her…