COVID-19 pandemic Archives

RWANDA CORONAVIRUS VARIANT, DETECTED IN VIETNAM

by Rwanda | Feb 17, 2021 | Health and fitness

Vietnam has confirmed that Coronavirus outbreaks believed to stem from an airport in Ho Chi Minh City may have been caused by a variant first detected in Rwanda. Vietnam’s Municipal Centre for Disease Control said in a report that “genome sequencing results showed...

Government is ramping up its winter flu vaccination programme

by Rwanda | Sep 22, 2020 | Health and fitness

The Government is ramping up its winter flu vaccination programme this year amid warnings flu combined with coronavirus present a “double danger” this winter. About 30 million people in England set to be offered a free flu jab in the coming months. By...

Rwandan truck drivers are being blocked by their Tanzanian counterparts

by Rwanda | May 5, 2020 | Business

Pandemonium broke out at Benako near the Rusumo border point with Rwandan truck drivers being blocked by their Tanzanian counterparts over Kigali’s new measures to control the spread of Coronavirus. “You claim we have Coronavirus, why are you coming to our country?”...