Lesotho: Nurses Quarantined Over COVID-19
[Lesotho Times] Three nurses have been quarantined after they were recently exposed to a patient who had tested positive for the deadly Coronavirus (Covid-19) in Quthing. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 25, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Africa: Refugees and Asylum Seekers in SA Must Get COVID-19 Grant, Court Orders
[Daily Maverick] The South African government has been ordered to include asylum seekers and special permit holders from Lesotho, Angola and Zimbabwe as recipients of the R350 Covid-19 social relief of distress grant. The court declared a regulation, made by Social Development minister Lindiwe Zulu, as unconstitutional. The administration of the grant seems to have turned into a nightmare for the government as the South African Social Security Agency released a statement admitting that they were aware of large-scale unhapp (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 19, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Lesotho: We Are Not Ready to Restart Soccer Leagues - Mohapi
[Lesotho Times] Lesotho Football Association (LeFA) secretary-general Mokhosi Mohapi says they are not yet ready to resume local league's action. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - June 17, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Lesotho: Top Cop Arrested, Charged in South Africa
[Lesotho Times] Lesotho Mounted Police (LMPS) Deputy Commissioner Mahlape Florence Morai was last Thursday arrested and charged for contravening South Africa's lockdown regulations. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 27, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
South Africa: Journalist Flees the Country After Police Beatings Over Lockdown Reporting
[RSF] Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the South African authorities to guarantee the freedom and safety of journalists covering the coronavirus epidemic and to punish all those responsible for abuses against reporters, including the newspaper editor who fled to Lesotho last week after repeated police beatings. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 27, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Lesotho: South Africa Worried by Liquor Smuggling From Lesotho
[Lesotho Times] Lesotho could be forced to reinstate the ban on the sale of alcohol after complaints from the South African government about the smuggling of the product from Lesotho. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 19, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Africa: All African Countries Now Have Confirmed COVID-19 Cases
[Premium Times] Lesotho confirmed its index case of coronavirus on Wednesday thus making it the last African country to have a recorded case. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 14, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Lesotho: Health Ministry Confirms Country's First COVID-19 Case
[VOA] Healthcare workers in the tiny Southern African country of Lesotho are attending to the country's first COVID-19 patient. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 14, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Remote Lesotho becomes last country in Africa to record COVID-19 case
Lesotho recorded its first case of COVID-19 on Wednesday, the health ministry said, becoming the last country in Africa to be afflicted by the virus. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - May 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: healthNews Source Type: news
All 54 African Countries Now Reporting Coronavirus Cases
(MASERU, Lesotho) — Southern Africa’s tiny mountain kingdom of Lesotho on Wednesday confirmed its first case of COVID-19, making it the last African country to report the disease. With the announcement, all 54 countries in Africa have now reported cases.
Lesotho’s health ministry said one person who recently arrived in the country had tested positive but was not showing signs of being ill. The patient was being isolated.
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The country of 2 million people is surrounded by South...
Source: TIME: Health - May 13, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Associated Press Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Lesotho News Desk wire Source Type: news
Lesotho: Illegal Border Crossings Worry Thabane
[Lesotho Times] Lesotho is at risk of coronavirus (COVID-19) infections from South Africa by Lesotho nationals illegally crossing back into the country, Prime Minister Thomas Thabane has said. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 13, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Lesotho: Govt Seeks U.S.$35,8 Million for COVID-19 Response
[Lesotho Times] The government will soon request parliament to re-direct M659 million from the 2020/2021 capital budget towards the country's Covid-19 response programmes. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 12, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Lesotho: Lesotho Ill-Prepared for COVID-19 Outbreak: NECC
[Lesotho Times] Prime Minister Thomas Thabane on Tuesday ignored the recommendations of the National Command Centre (NECC) to extend the lockdown by another 14 days to enable Lesotho to equip its health facilities to respond to an outbreak of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 12, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Lesotho: Thabane Lifts Lockdown
[Lesotho Times] Prime Minister Thomas Thabane on Tuesday lifted the national lockdown which has been in place since 30 March 2020 as part of measures to fight the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 12, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Lesotho: Deputy PM Moleleki Forced Out of Parliament, Ordered to Self-Quarantine
[Lesotho Times] The Deputy Prime Minister and leader of the National Assembly, Monyane Moleleki, was on Tuesday forced to leave parliament by fellow legislators who protested that he had travelled to Coronavirus-hit South Africa last week. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - May 12, 2020 Category: African Health Source Type: news
