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Dec
24
2020
By The African Mirror
Swiss to resume flights for stranded Britons and South Africans to go home

Swiss to resume flights for stranded Britons and South Africans to go home

COVID-19
SWITZERLAND will allow flights to Britain and South Africa to resume from Thursday, allowing visitors from the two countries where a new strain of coronavirus has emerged to return home for Christmas. The flight connections, which were suspended at midnight on Sunday, December 20, can temporarily resume from Thursday, December 24, the government said on Wednesday. The flights can also be used for Swiss people stranded in Britain and South Africa to return home, it added. Special protective measures will be applied to people who are still in quarantine to reduce the risk of the virus spreading. The government also…
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Dec
23
2020
By The African Mirror
More countries ban all flights from South Africa over COVID-19 mutation

More countries ban all flights from South Africa over COVID-19 mutation

COVID-19
The Netherlands has joined a range of nations banning flights from South Africa to stop the spread of a new variant of the coronavirus. The Dutch government said all passenger flights were banned with immediate effect until January 1, at the latest. An exception would be made for medical workers, it said, while cargo flights were also still allowed. At least seven countries and airlines, including Germany and Turkey, were reported to have banned flights to South Africa on Monday after a new genetic mutation of COVID-19 had been found there and is believed to be responsible for a recent…
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Dec
23
2020
By The African Mirror
Pay cuts and forced overtime: COVID-19 takes heavy toll on Ethiopia’s garment workers

Pay cuts and forced overtime: COVID-19 takes heavy toll on Ethiopia’s garment workers

COVID-19
EMELINE WUILBERCQ EVEN before COVID-19 struck, the women stitching clothes at Ethiopia's Hawassa industrial park were among the world's worst-paid garment workers - many making less than $30 per month. Today, pay cuts and forced overtime have become common in short-staffed factories abandoned by hundreds of former employees - some too scared of catching the coronavirus to return, several workers told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. Tigist, a 20-year-old seamstress, said some of her colleagues had not come back to Hawassa after they were furloughed in the early months of the pandemic, as the global garment industry was hammered by cancelled…
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Dec
22
2020
By The African Mirror
WHO says no need for major alarm over new coronavirus strain

WHO says no need for major alarm over new coronavirus strain

COVID-19
EMMA FARGE and MICHAEL SHIELDS THE World Health Organization cautioned against major alarm over a new, highly infectious variant of the coronavirus that has emerged in Britain, saying this was a normal part of a pandemic's evolution. WHO officials even put a positive light on the discovery of the new strains that prompted a slew of alarmed countries to impose travel restrictions on Britain and South Africa, saying new tools to track the virus were working. "We have to find a balance. It's very important to have transparency, it's very important to tell the public the way it is, but…
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Dec
22
2020
By The African Mirror
Tunisia bans air travel with UK, Australia and South Africa over new virus

Tunisia bans air travel with UK, Australia and South Africa over new virus

COVID-19
Tunisia has suspended all air travel with Britain, Australia and South Africa, citing fears of a new coronavirus strain. Tunisia has reported a total of 120,687 coronavirus infections and 4,158 deaths. The health ministry said it was holding an emergency meeting to follow up on the developments of the epidemiological situation around the world. - Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Dec
22
2020
By The African Mirror
Are digital health passports a good idea?

Are digital health passports a good idea?

COVID-19
UMBERTO BAACHI THE rollout of the first batches of COVID-19 vaccines in Britain and the United States has reignited a debate around the possible use of digital health passports to ease the lockdowns that are crippling the global economy. Proponents say identifying people who are immune to the novel coronavirus or at lower risk of spreading it could help open up travel and other services. But, critics have raised concerns over privacy, health and discrimination. As more technology firms develop digital certificates that can be accessed on smartphones by employers, airlines and others here is all you need to know…
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Dec
21
2020
By The African Mirror
Coronavirus new variant – genomics researcher answers key questions

Coronavirus new variant – genomics researcher answers key questions

COVID-19
A new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, is thought to be driving increased transmission of the disease in parts of the UK. The government has placed some regions including London under new, stricter coronavirus restrictions, known as Tier 4. People in Tier 4 areas will not be able to gather with anyone outside their household for Christmas, while those in the rest of the country can only gather on Christmas Day itself. LUCY VAN DORP, Senior Research Fellow, Microbial Genomics, UCL Boris Johnson, the prime minister, and his chief scientific advisors said that the new variant could…
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Dec
21
2020
By The African Mirror
El Salvador bans travelers from U.K., South Africa

El Salvador bans travelers from U.K., South Africa

COVID-19
EL SALAVDOR has banned travelers who have been in the United Kingdom or South Africa in the last 30 days or whose flights included a layover in those countries, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele has revealed on Twitter.. London and southeast England may stay under tighter curbs for some time to stem a fast-spreading new coronavirus strain, Britain's health minister suggested on Sunday, as COVID-19 cases surged by a record number for one day. - Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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Dec
20
2020
By The African Mirror
As COVID-19 vaccines launch, digital certificates seen deepening inequalities

As COVID-19 vaccines launch, digital certificates seen deepening inequalities

COVID-19
RINA CHANDRAN  AS COVID-19 vaccines are rolled out worldwide, a push for identity proofs and digital certificates risks excluding poorer and vulnerable groups from vaccination and the benefits that come with it, according to rights experts. India announced guidelines this week for the first phase of vaccinations for about 300 million people, requiring eligible recipients to first register online with photo-identity documents, including the Aadhaar digital ID. Meanwhile, the International Air Transport Association (IATA), the lobby group of the world's airlines, said it would launch a digital health travel pass early next year that will include passengers' COVID-19 vaccination data. But insisting on a…
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