Covid-19

CANADA: Erin O’Toole rejects Chrystia Freeland’s economic recovery strategy as a radical experiment. So what’s his plan?

By Heather Scoffield, THE TORONTO STARTue., Jan. 26, 2021 She is the country’s first female in charge of fiscal policy, and she is thinking big — big deficits, big spending,Read More

CANADA: Erin O’Toole rejects Chrystia Freeland’s economic recovery strategy as a radical experiment. So what’s his plan?

By Heather Scoffield, THE TORONTO STARTue., Jan. 26, 2021 She is the country’s first female in charge of fiscal policy, and she is thinking big — big deficits, big spending,Read More

CANADA: Erin O’Toole rejects Chrystia Freeland’s economic recovery strategy as a radical experiment. So what’s his plan?

By Heather Scoffield, THE TORONTO STARTue., Jan. 26, 2021 She is the country’s first female in charge of fiscal policy, and she is thinking big — big deficits, big spending,Read More

UK’s ‘tsunami’ of grief as coronavirus deaths pass 100,000

By PAN PYLAS, Associated Press 26 January 2021 LONDON (AP) — For nine months, Gordon Bonner has been in the “hinterlands of despair and desolation” after losing his wife of Read More

Providence Therapeutics begins first clinical trials of Canadian-made COVID-19 vaccine

By The Canadian Press January 26, 2021 Alberta-made vaccine enters clinical trials Human clinical trials are underway for a new COVID-19 vaccine set to be produced in Calgary, according to Canadian Read More

Trudeau urges Canadians to cancel travel plans, says new restrictions are coming

By THE CANADIAN PRESS, REUTERS 26 January 2021 Canadians should cancel any non-essential travel plans they might have, whether it’s abroad or even between provinces, as new restrictions are on Read More

Clashes break out in Tunisia after protester dies of injuries

By AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES26 Jan 2021 Angry residents fired projectiles at police and blocked roads in the town of Sbeitla after the death of the protester. A Tunisian Read More

During pandemic lockdown Uganda’s Kyambogo University turned classrooms into chicken coops like Kenya

By BBC25 August 2020 Coronavirus in Kenya: How it turned classrooms into chicken coops Kenya’s decision to close all schools until next January because of coronavirus has left many of Read More

Tanzania plays “chicken” with the coronavirus. Who will blink first?

Published on January 25, 2021 By Aidan EyakuzeBoard Member at Open Government Partnership https://ift.tt/3qRYSiP An original version was published in Tanzania on January 18, 2021 in The Citizen newspaper. In the Read More

Covid-19 worsens turbulence facing East Africa’s airlines

By THE EASTAFRICAN Monday 25 January 2021 It is back to the drawing board for airlines in East Africa as a resurgence of Covid-19 further disrupts global travel amid the Read More