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Ghana has announced a two-week lockdown in the country's two main regions starting Monday to curb the spread of coronavirus.

Morocco's economy ministry says it has allocated $201 million to bolster medical equipment needed to fight the novel coronavirus, including the purchase of 100 000 testing kits.

The normally bustling markets have thinned out and the notoriously clogged roads are eerily free: Lagos is lurching towards shutdown as Nigeria tries to prevent the spread of coronavirus.

The Central African Republic, a poverty-stricken state that the UN has singled out as highly vulnerable to coronavirus, has stepped up measures over fears that the disease is spreading locally.

The World Health Organisation's regional director for Africa has warned the continent faces a "dramatic evolution" of the coronavirus pandemic.

Ugandan police have said that two men were in hospital after being shot for violating restrictions on transport in a bid to curb the spread of coronavirus.

Until a vaccine is ready, widespread testing is one of the key strategies employed to 'flatten the curve' of pandemic.

Zimbabwe is poorly equipped to deal with a major Covid-19 outbreak because it is in the throes of an economic crisis.

Malians are set to vote in a long-delayed parliamentary election, despite a raging jihadist conflict, the recent kidnap of a leading opposition politician and the coronavirus pandemic.

The WHO in Africa is of the view that HIV needs to be taken into account when various governments across implement their interventions to minimise the spread of the deadly coronavirus.

[Nation] The number of people in Kenya who have tested positive for the Covid-19 disease has risen to 38, the Ministry of Health said Saturday.

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala -The African Development Bank has raised an exceptional USD 3 billion in a three-year bond to help alleviate the economic and social impact that the COVID-19 pandemic will have on livelihoods and Africa's economies.

[Monitor] In his address to the nation on Wednesday last week, President Museveni outlined 13 measures to be followed in the fight against the coronavirus. One of them was for everyone to eat foods that strengthen the immune system.

[Independent (Kampala)] Kampala -The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Uganda has risen to 23, after five more positive results were got from 227 samples tested Friday.

[Nation] We are in the midst of a plague of biblical proportions, and the government is hardly in a position to mitigate most of its ill effects.

[Nation] Hundreds of Kisumu residents braved a heavy downpour on Friday evening as they rushed home to beat the nationwide curfew that kicked off Friday 7pm.

[Nation] Cities across the county sprung back to life Saturday morning after the first night of curfew.

[Capital FM] Nairobi -It all started with cries of women and children choking from teargas lobbed on them by police officers a few meters from Likoni ferry where they were queuing to cross over to the mainland.

[CISA] Nairobi -Priests in the Archdiocese of Nairobi will mark Easter Triduum celebrations in private following the banning of gatherings across the country to curb the spread of coronavirus.

[Monitor] Coronavirus has brought the county's tourism and hotel industry sector to its knees. Tourist cancellations have reached 100 per cent due to the pandemic and within weeks, various hotels have turned into white elephants, making back-to-back losses.