BY THOMAS C MOUNTAIN There are only a couple of countries in the world that have completely prevented COVID-19 from infecting their people and I live in one of them, thank God. We don’t wear masks and our hospitals function normally. We are not afraid to meet anyone, to go anywhere and any cough we […]
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BY MINISTRY OF HEALTH 1The Government of Eritrea’s central, two-track policy framework was anchored, from the outset, on a robust preventive strategy that encompassed the full arsenal of standard and customized tools of suppression to pre-empt, and in the case of the first outbreak, sever and abort the transmission of the pandemic. In tandem with […]
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BY FIKREJESUS AMHAZION (PH.D.) The fabrication of information is not new. However, in recent times, so-called “fake news”, misinformation, and disinformation have become increasingly important and salient issues within societies around the world. Although broad and open to several different definitions or interpretations, collectively these terms generally refer to perceived and deliberate distortions of news […]
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The first phase of extensive and random testing of 4,659 households in various sections of the capital Asmara completed; the overall result is encouraging. BY HIGH-LEVEL COVID-19 TASK FORCE In its statement of 16 May last month, the High-Level Task Force on COVID-19 announced that the GOE has “decided for the launching of random and […]
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BY ENA Ethiopia has reported 100 Coronavirus cases in a single day since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. In its daily update on new infections, the Ministry of Health announced that 100 new Coronavirus cases were identified out of the 4,950 individuals tested during the past 24 hours.
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“Taking into account the gravity of the looming danger, the gov’t has no option other than the strict implementation of the preventive strategy for stopping and curtailing the spread of the pandemic.” BY COVID-19 TASK FORCE As it will be recalled, the Government of Eritrea (GOE) issued, on April 1st this month, the “Stay-at-Home” Guidelines […]
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BY THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH The Government of Eritrea has been issuing guidelines periodically for controlling the spread of COVID-19. The guidelines have not been implemented with the rigour and seriousness that they warrant.
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