May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan Information Minister and government spokesman Michael Makuei Lueth has said that he is recovering from COVID-19, the respiratory illness caused by the novel coronavirus. “Well I am fine and I am recovering. I haven’t experienced any symptom of the corona[virus]. I think by next week I will be well,” Makuei told South Sudan […]
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May 25, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit will tour Juba tomorrow, Tuesday, to dispel rumours that he has been admitted to a Cairo hospital after he has allegedly be diagnosed with COVID-19, a presidency spokesman said. “The president is very healthy and doing his work normally. I want to assure the public that the president is […]
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May 23, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan coronavirus cases have soared to 655 after the National Taskforce on COVID-19 said this evening that 92 more people have tested positive for the deadly virus. The taskforce said two more deaths were also registered on Saturday bringing the total of those who died as direct results of COVID-19, the disease associated with […]
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May 23, 2020(SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President and leader of the SPLM-IO Dr. Riek Machar Teny has said this morning that he and his wife Angelina Teny were recovering from COVID-19 one week since they were found positive for the virus. Speaking via teleconference from Juba to worshipers in Khartoum today, Machar said he and Mrs. Teny who […]
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May 23, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan presidency said on Saturday that plans were being made to relocate President Salva Kiir Mayardit to Luri which has been described by the presidency as “lest congested.” Ateny Wek Ateny, president Kiir’s spokesman also denied this morning that president Salva Kiir has been evacuated to Egypt for treatment after social media reports. “Whatever […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government has announced that the country’s ministry of health registered on Friday 82 more cases of COVID-19 all of whom are South Sudanese. This, the high-level taskforce said, brings the total cases of coronavirus in the world’s youngest country to 551. South Sudan has seen rise in coronavirus cases since President Salva Kiir […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny is discharging his duties as First Vice President and also as SPLM-IO leader from his home where he is quarantined, his media official said. Machar last week tested positive for COVID-19, the respiratory sickness caused by the novel coronavirus, along his wife Angelina Teny who is […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s information minister Michael Makuei Lueth has denied reports that President Salva Kiir Mayardit has tested positive for the deadly COVID-19. The denial by Makuei comes as South Sudan diplomats quoted by the South Sudan News Now (SSNN) said on Friday that the head of state has been flown to the Egyptian capital Cairo […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has arrived in the Egyptian capital Cairo in a surprise trip, a South Sudan embassy staff in Cairo said this morning. “The President of the republic is here in Cairo. He arrived on Thursday and he will stay here for a number of days to discuss bilateral relations with […]
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May 22, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny has not been evacuated to any foreign country as reported on a section of South Sudan media yesterday, a spokesman for Machar said in a statement this morning. On Thursday, reports were circulated on social media of Machar having been evacuated to Europe allegedly after his […]
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May 22, 2020(SSNN) — Briefing the international media on US response to combating COVID-19 in Sub-Saharan Africa, the US Assistant Secretary for African Affairs, Tibor Peter Nagy, said South Sudan is not helping the efforts to combat the global pandemic by failing to pay the salaries of health workers. Hon. Nagy was responding to a journalist, Carol, who states that […]
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May 21, 2020 (SSNN) – A senior South Sudan government official has reportedly been evacuated to an identified country after an alleged health setbacks imposed by the novel coronavirus. A senior government official at the Juba International Airport told South Sudan News Now (SSNN) that the senior government official has recently been tested positive for coronavirus but said could not […]
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May 21, 2020 (SSNN) – Members of South Sudan’s Transitional National Legislative Assembly (TNLA) in the capital Juba have rejected an order this week from the presidency that all lawmakers take mandatory coronavirus test, sources have said from Juba. “This thing (COVID-19 test) shouldn’t be mandatory. It is individual person to determine whether that person need to test or not,” […]
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May 21, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s minister of cabinet affairs, Hon. Martin Elia Lomoro, has admitted that he and some members of his family have been exposed to COVID-19, the sickness which comes as result of the novel coronavirus. This comes days after Lomoro denied in a statement on social media that he was tested and found positive for […]
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May 20, 2020(SSNN) — In a friendly letter written and signed by South Sudan’s incumbent president, Salva Kiir Mayardit, to his all-time rival and current First Vice President, Dr. Riek Machar Teny, who contracted COVID-19, president Kiir prays for Machar and other members of the former High-level Taskforce to get well soon. Despite political differences that have hindered the implementations […]
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May 20, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan coronavirus cases have jumped to 490 after 143 more people tested positive for the virus. Until today, South Sudan had 347 cases. The ministry of health said in a statement that all the 143 new cases are South Sudanese. The surge in cases came as President Salva Kiir said earlier this month that […]
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May 20, 2020 (SSNN) – Many people who died recently in South Sudan’s capital Juba are victims of the the novel coronavirus, a senior government official said. Dr Angok Kuol Tiir, the coronavirus incident manager at the ministry of health told the Australia-based radio station SBS Dinka that many people who died recently have tested positive posthumously for coronavirus. Dr. […]
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May 20, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit has ordered all members of parliament to take a mandatory test for coronavirus, a lawmaker told South Sudan News Now (SSNN) from the capital Juba. “The President has ordered that all of us [to] be tested and that will go on regularly every one week,” the lawmaker who refused […]
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May 19, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan information minister Michael Makuei has said that all members of the former high-level taskforce including himself have contracted the novel coronavrius. This comes after speculations on social media suggest that he and some members of the taskforce have contracted the virus. The deputy chair of the taskforce and First Vice President Dr. Riek […]
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May 19, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan minister of cabinet affairs Martin Elia Lomoro has debunked this afternoon rumors that he has been found positive with COVID-19 after reports that he and some members of the high-level taskforce tested positive for the virus. Yesterday, South Sudan’s First Vice President Dr. Riek Machar Teny said all members of the coronavirus taskforce […]
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May 19, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan information minister Michael Makuei Lueth and Cabinet affairs minister Martin Elia Lomoro have both tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, sources inside the high-level taskforce said. One source said Makuei had refused to give blood samples last month but was convinced earlier this month to do so and […]
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May 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan coronavirus cases have skyrocketed to 347 after the country’s ministry of health announced in the capital Juba this evening that 57 more people have tested positive for the deadly virus. The undersecretary in the ministry of health, Dr. Makur Koriom, said in a statement to the state-owned South Sudan Broadcasting Corporation (SSBC) that […]
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May 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan businessman Athian Achiek Majok has died this afternoon in the country’s capital Juba after contracting the COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, medical staff have said. “Yes it is true, Mr. Athian passed away this afternoon. He was brought here (Dr. John Garang Infectious Disease Center) for coronavirus. We don’t when […]
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May 18, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s ambassador to South Africa has died of COVID-19 days after struggling with the sickness caused by the novel coronavirus, sources familiar with the development said. “Ambassador Paul Macuei Malok died on Sunday night at the Dr. John Garang Infectious Diseases Centre after contracting the novel coronavirus,” one source in Juba familiar with the […]
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May 17, 2020 (SSNN) – Chinese medical experts on Friday shared their experience of responding to the COVID-19 pandemic with their counterparts in Uganda and South Sudan. Speaking at the opening of the meeting held via Webinar, Aeneas Chuma, UNAIDS Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, said the world is facing one of the biggest challenges that is not […]
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May 16, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s high-level taskforce on coronavirus has announced that as much as over 50 people tested positive for COVID-19, the diseases caused by the novel coronavirus, the highest infection rate in one single day. The high-level taskforce said this evening that the ministry of health informed them that 54 people tested positive for COVID-19 today. […]
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May 16, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir Mayardit said on Friday that members of South Sudan People’s Defense Force (SSPDF) will be deployed to fight hunger and the novel coronavirus. The South Sudanese leader made the remark during a televised address on Friday as the country marks the 37th anniversary of the SPLM/SPLA, a rebel movement and […]
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May 16, 2020(SSNN) — In response to combat Coronavirus in South Sudan, the United Nations High Commissioner for the Refugees(UNHCR) has handed over at least three vehicles and beddings to South Sudan Ministry of Health. According to the Assistant External Relations Officer, Gift Friday Noah, of the UNHCR in South Sudan, the refugee agency in the world’s youngest nation has […]
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May 15, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan’s high-level taskforce has confirmed three more deaths of COVID-19, the disease associated with the novel coronavirus, and also announced that the country’s overall active cases have jumped to 236. More to follow!
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May 15, 2020 (SSNN) – Former deputy governor of South Sudan’s defunct Yei River state has died this morning with coronavirus, sources at Dr. John Garang Infectious Diseases Center have said. Yousta Baba Dima died after contracting the disease last week and was referred to Dr. John Garang Infectious Diseases Center after having been treated at a private hospital in […]
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May 14, 2020 (SSNN) – South Sudan government threatened on Thursday to jail journalists over unethical reporting urging media houses to strictly desist from what it said is a non-professional reporting practices. In a statement this evening, South Sudan’s high-level taskforce said it “strongly denounces the wave of information and disinformation around COVID- 19 disease including publishing in social media, […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) — South Sudan coronavirus cases on Wednesday surpassed the 200 mark after the high-level Taskforce said nine (9) more people tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus. The high-level Taskforce said the latest positive tests were all of South Sudanese who were in contact with the people who tested positive for the virus […]
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May 13, 2020 (SSNN) – Days after easing measures, the high-level taskforce introduced to fight the coronavirus outbreak; South Sudan President Salva Kiir Mayardit is now saying that he will impose total lockdown as cases in the world’s youngest nation closes to 200. The South Sudanese head of state disclosed this during a meeting via teleconference with leaders of the […]
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