Ghana’s infection cases of COVID-19 have reached 27,667. This is the second most hardly impacted the West African nation.
Despite mount in infection cases, high school final examinations in the nation will commence soon.
Three hundred and seventy thousand students are scheduled to take the West Africa Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations this year in Ghana.
President Akufo-Addo on Sunday, admonished students to prepare hard for the forthcoming examination.
While the examination will kick start during a pandemic, he urged invigilators, teachers, and students to follow health guidelines.
Infection number in Kenya spikes to 13,353. The Country’s Capital, Nairobi records more than 1,200 cases of the epidemic in three days.
Following a spike in the number of cases, affected counties have been locked by the government including Nairobi while night-time curfew has been imperatively implemented.
Nairobi makes up more than half of Kenya’s COVID-19 cases.
Africa’s death poll hits 15,170 with infection spiked to more than 721,292 cases. 380,253 patients have also recovered from the epidemic. South Africa remains the most impacted with 364,328 cases and 5,033. Followed closely in Egypt with 87,775 number of viruses, 36,663 cases in Nigeria, 23,084 cases in Algeria.
Zimbabwe Government disclosed that activists who continue to flout lockdown directives would be nabbed. News in the last couple of weeks in Zimbabwe has been filled with arrests of journalists, activists, and lawyers.
The nation’s Information Ministry Secretary, however, warned that this won’t stop if activists continue to flout the imperative lockdown guidelines in the Southern African country.