Bringing us to our senses

Bringing us to our senses

Omicron! Red alert in Europe: ‘major incident’ in London, lockdown in the Netherlands, quarantine barriers around and contact restrictions in Germany. Well then: Merry Christmas. Here in Namibia, on the other hand, serenity prevails. Although Omicron is...

Government reacts calmly to Omicron

The number of Corona infections continues to rise sharply, but the infected only have to be hospitalised in a few cases. There have also been hardly more deaths so far. This how President Hage Geingob and Health Minister Kalumbi Shangula outlined the situation in view...

In 18 out of 19 cases Omicron

Omicron is also in Namibia. This was announced by President Hage Geingob and Minister of Health, Kalumbi Shangula, at a media conference in the morning. Accordingly, the newly discovered variant of the corona virus SARS-CoV-2 was detected in 18 of 19 samples from...

Second high season at risk

German authorities abated the hopes of the Namibian travel industry for a restart of tourism in mid-June. The country was declared a virus variant area with effect from June 20. They did not disclose the name of the Corona virus variant. So far, only isolated cases of...

Government ignores travel industry

Confirmed COVID-19 Cases # INFECTED: 1,032 # ACTIVE: 999 # DECEASED: 2 # RECOVERED: 31 # TESTED: 16,305 With its silence to the re-opening of borders the government risks the collapse the travel industry. This was declared today by the umbrella association Fenata in a...