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AFRICAN NEWS UPDATES

Rwanda ranked first in Africa, sixth globally in were calculated using con-
Covid-19 management (africanews.com) firmed indicators like confirmed cases, deaths,
cases per million people, deaths per million peo-
Rwanda has been ranked first in Africa and sixth
ple, the proportion of tests and tests per thou-
globally in managing the Covid-19 pandemic and
sand people. Togo was the second country in Afri-
making the information accessible to the public.
ca ranking at position 15 globally followed by Tuni-
sia at 21st, Mozambique at 26, Malawi at 27, Zam-
bia at 29 and Uganda at 30.
Tanzania and Burundi, alongside China, were
among countries not ranked due to a lack of pub-
licly available data on testing.

The top three countries that depicted the highest
level in this pandemic management are New Zea-
land, Vietnam and Taiwan respectively.

Shell Nigeria ordered to pay compensation

for oil spills (BBC)
The Australian think tank Lowy Institute ranked a A Dutch appeals court has ruled that the Nigerian
total of 98 countries globally gauging their level in
branch of oil giant Shell is responsible for damage
terms of average performance in managing the
caused by leaks in the Niger Delta.
pandemic within 36 weeks when they recorded
their 100th Coronavirus case. The court ordered Shell Nigeria to pay compensa-
tion to Nigerian farmers, while the subsidiary and
Rwanda has increased its testing capacity, with
its Anglo-Dutch parent company were told to in-
over 4,000 daily tests and up to 853,238 in total by
stall equipment to prevent future damage.
Wednesday. It has recorded a total of 14,529 Covid-
19 cases with 9,234 recoveries.

It has recorded up to 183 deaths, which is 1.3 per-
cent of the people infected.
The report revealed that smaller populations, cohe-
sive societies and capable institutions were big fac-
tors in successfully dealing with the pandemic.

The study measured a number of key indicators
including confirmed cases, deaths, cases per mil-
lion people and deaths per million people.

Fourteen-day rolling averages of new daily figures

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