Algeria: Covid 19 - Extraordinary Bonus for Public Healthcare Staff
[Algerie Presse Service] Algiers -The President of the Republic announced Tuesday that he had signed today a decree establishing the granting of an exceptional bonus for public healthcare personnel, mobilized in the prevention and fight against the spread of coronavirus. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - April 1, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Suicide prevention in the African Region - Osafo J, Asante KO, Akotia CS.
This paper addresses national responses to suicide prevention in the African region. Eighteen countries responded, of which none had a national suicide prevention strategy in place and only three countries, namely Algeria, Congo, and Madagascar, were i... (Source: SafetyLit)
Source: SafetyLit - March 28, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Suicide and Self-Harm Source Type: news
COVID-19 in Africa: Fewer Cases So Far, and More Preparation Needed
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Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - March 19, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: External Source Tags: Africa Headlines Health Coronavirus Source Type: news
Algeria: Coronavirus - Algeria Has Imported Equipment Worth Millions of Dollars in One Week
[Algerie Presse Service] ALGIERS-In one week, Algeria has imported millions of dollars of equipment to face the outbreak of coronavirus, said Sunday Premier Abdelaziz Djerad. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 15, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Zimbabwe/Algeria: 'Warriors, Desert Foxes AFCON Clash Hangs in Balance Over COVID-19'
[New Zimbabwe] THE Zimbabwe Football Association (ZIFA) has raised concern over the safety of players, technical staff and supporters who are due to travel to Algeria for the senior national team's AFCON qualifier over fears of the coronavirus. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 12, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Angola: Government Reduces Country Entry Ban
[ANGOP] Luanda -Citizens from Egypt, Algeria and Nigeria are allowed to enter Angolan soil, after the Ministry of Health announced the ban because of Covid19 cases in the respective countries. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 6, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Algeria/Zimbabwe: Warriors Tie in Algeria Under Threat
[The Herald] THERE is now a real possibility the Warriors' 2021 AFCON qualifier against the Desert Foxes might not be played in Algeria. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 6, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: COVID-19, Situation Update for the WHO African Region (4 March 2020)
[WHO] Three countries, namely Algeria, Nigeria and Senegal, in the WHO African Region have reported confirmed cases of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The events are highlighted below: (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - March 5, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Algeria confirms two more coronavirus cases
Algeria has confirmed two new cases of coronavirus infections, a woman and her daughter aged 53 and 24 years respectively, the health ministry said on Monday. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - March 2, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
Africa: A Second Coronavirus Case Is Confirmed in Algeria
[WHO] A second COVID-19 case is confirmed in Africa (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 26, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Nigeria: Coronavirus - New Research Places Nigeria Among High Risk African Countries
[This Day] A new research has revealed that Egypt, Algeria, and South Africa are at high risk of suffering from the deadly coronavirus, while Nigeria, Ethiopia, Sudan, Angola, Tanzania, Ghana and Kenya will all need support to detect and handle imported cases of the epidemic. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - February 20, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Risk of coronavirus importation in Africa
(INSERM (Institut national de la sant é et de la recherche m é dicale)) Egypt, Algeria and Republic of South Africa are the African countries most at risk for coronavirus COVID-19 importation in the continent, due to high air traffic with the contaminated Chinese provinces. But these countries are also among the best equipped on the continent to quickly detect and deal with new cases. In other African countries, the risk of importation is lower, but health organizationdeficiencies raise concerns about rapid spread. (Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science)
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - February 20, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Egypt, Algeria, South Africa at 'high risk' for coronavirus, analysis finds
Egypt, Algeria and South Africa are among the highest-risk countries in Africa as the COVID-19 outbreak threatens to expand to the continent, but other nations with less-prepared health systems may be more vulnerable. (Source: Health News - UPI.com)
Source: Health News - UPI.com - February 19, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
The Lancet: Egypt, Algeria and South Africa estimated to be at highest risk of new coronavirus cases in Africa
(The Lancet) Increased resources, surveillance, and capacity building should be urgently prioritised in African countries with moderate risk of importing cases of novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), as these countries are estimated to be ill-prepared to detect cases and limit transmission. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - February 19, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
How Our Modern World Creates Outbreaks Like Coronavirus
“Everyone knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world,” observes Albert Camus in his novel The Plague. “Yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet plagues and wars always take people by surprise.”
Camus was imagining a fictional outbreak of plague in 1948 in Oran, a port city in northwest Algeria. But at a time when the world is reeling from a very real microbial emergency sparked by the emergence of a novel coronavirus in Wuhan, central China, his observations are as pertinent a...
Source: TIME: Health - February 7, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Mark Honigsbaum Tags: Uncategorized 2019-nCoV health ideas Source Type: news
