Police and army patrols in South Africa began at midnight as the lockdown came into effect and continued throughout the course of the day in
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Zimbabwe to start coronavirus lockdown on Monday
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced that the country will go into lockdown from Monday in an effort to control the spread of coronavirus. So
South African workers freed from mask-making factory
The authorities in the South African city of Durban have freed 14 workers who had been “locked up in a [mask-making] factory since Monday”, a
Coronavirus: Zimbabwean broadcaster Zororo Makamba died ‘alone and scared’
Cooped up in an isolation ward, a young Zimbabwean man who had been diagnosed with Covid-19, pleaded with his family for help. Thirty-year-old Zororo Makamba
Rwanda coronavirus cases rise to 54
Rwanda has announced nine new cases of coronavirus, bringing the total to 54 cases in less than two weeks since the first case was reported.
Quarantined woman ‘kills herself’ in Kenya
Kenyan media report that a woman who was being quarantined in the western city of Nakuru has taken her own life. Health workers found her
Tanzanian couple arrested for ‘calling virus a hoax’
Police in Tanzania’s commercial capital Dar es Salaam is holding a couple for allegedly spreading false information about coronavirus. Dar es Salaam’s police chief Lazaro
Chad imposes state of emergency after Boko Haram attack
Chad has imposed a state of emergency in parts of the west of the country, following an attack by Islamist militants Boko Haram which killed
Zimbabwe to start coronavirus lockdown on Monday
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has announced that the country will go into lockdown from Monday in an effort to control the spread of coronavirus. So
Zero Covid-19 cases in Burundi
As of March 26 Burundi had not reported a single case of Covid-19. In a national address on the state broadcaster, government spokesman Prosper Ntahorwamiye