COVID-19

ADF STAFF Less than 60 days after it began, South Africa’s fifth wave of COVID-19 infections ended with the lowest peak and fewest deaths of any previous wave in the country. The fifth wave was driven by the BA.4 and BA.5 strains of the…

ADF STAFF Nigeria’s approach to managing the pandemic has offered experts plenty to discuss. The continent’s most populous country is receiving both praise and criticism for its response to COVID-19. Nigeria has recorded 256,148 COVID-19…

This article is part of an ongoing series. For more debunked COVID-19 claims visit the first article in the series. ADF STAFF Social media can be an effective tool to spread accurate information about COVID-19 and help guard…

ADF STAFF New studies  suggest that bits of COVID-19 can linger in a patient’s gastrointestinal system for months after the person is infected. Ami Bhatt, an oncologist and geneticist at Stanford University in California, and Timon…

ADF STAFF As South Africa’s fifth wave of COVID-19 infections winds down, researchers have learned a key lesson from the experience: New sublineages of a variant can drive infections as much as entirely new variants can. South Africa’s…

ADF STAFF Vuyo Lumkwani awoke one morning in mid-May feeling unwell with a headache, stuffy nose, body aches and dizziness. She went to a COVID-19 testing center in the Chiawelo area of Soweto, South Africa. “I was terrified about my…

ADF STAFF To help save the lives of some of Mozambique’s sickest COVID-19 patients, the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) donated an oxygen production plant in late April. Known as a pressure swing…

ADF STAFF South Africa’s newest wave of COVID-19 infections is proving to be substantially different from previous waves. This is partly because of the high level of immunity in the population, according to experts from the country’s…

ADF STAFF Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the World Health Organization, had a simple message for the WHO’s first in-person assembly in two years: Life might be returning to normal in many countries, but it’s important…

ADF STAFF When the COVID-19 pandemic first closed schools throughout Malawi in March 2020, Patricia Siyati and her friends felt like they were on holiday. But the pandemic changed everything. Patricia’s school didn’t reopen for…