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By Ryan Steal Many Twitter users just didn’t get it when “Sesame Street” Puppet announced his vaccination and encouraged children to receive the jab. Instead, they dismissed the vaccine promotion as government promotion. The Big Bird was seen in CNN’s town hall “The ABCs of Covid Vaccines' this past weekend with Erica Hill. The bird […]
A November 26 letter from the presidency asked the head of Uganda's national drug authority to 'work out a mechanism' to clear the importation of the vaccines.
China has about five COVID-19 vaccine candidates at different levels of trials. It was not clear what vaccine was being imported into Uganda.
One of the frontrunners is the Sinopharm vaccine developed by the Beijing Institute of Biological Product, a unit of Sinopharm’s China National Biotec Group (CNBG).
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates said the vaccine has 86% efficacy, citing an interim analysis of late-stage clinical trials.
China has used the drug to vaccinate up to a million people under its emergency use program.
On Tuesday, Morocco said it was ordering up to 10 million doses of the vaccine.
Record cases
Uganda on Monday registered 701 new COVID-19 cases, the highest-ever daily increase, bringing its national count to 23,200.
The new cases were out of the 5,578 samples tested for the novel coronavirus over the past 24 hours, the country's health ministry said in a statement.
Tuesday's tally was 606, the second-highest ever number of new infections, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases in the east African country to 23,860.
Health authorities have blamed ongoing election campaigns which have drawn huge crowds for the rise in infections.
Puppet Showplace Theater in Brookline has opened applications for a new Black Puppeteer Empowerment Grant & Creative Research Residency for summer 2020.
The grant offers five black artists $1,000 grants to support the research and development of new projects, along with mentorship from master puppeteer Brad Brewer and the facilitation of a performance of the works in progress.
These grants are part of a long-term mission at the Puppet Showplace Theater to diversify voices in the industry.
Myhrum says that the puppetry industry in the United States is often centered on white voices, despite the many talented black artists involved.
She recalls Jeghetto’s performance “Just Another Lynching” at the Puppet Showplace Theater; the piece sparked in-depth dialogues after the show about the black American experience.
Namibia has appointed a technical team to look into logistical requirements of importing a COVID-19 vaccine.
The southern African country’s minister of health said the team was instructed to study the storage, transport and distribution needs, local newspaper The Namibian reported on Friday.
Namibia lacks the infrastructure needed to store or distribute a COVID-19 vaccine. Most of the vaccine candidates so far require ultra-cold conditions for storage and distribution.
Namibia has paid $1.9m to the COVAX programme, a global initiative aimed at working with vaccine manufacturers to ensure equitable access to safe and effective vaccines - to secure the medicines for her people.
The country targets to vaccinate 20% of its population. Frontline health workers and people of advanced age will be the first recipients of the jabs.
Namibia has recorded 16,097 cumulative cases, 14,332 recoveries and 160 deaths.
The country has a population of nearly 2.5 million people.
Neighboring Angola on Thursday said it expected to receive five million doses of a COVID-19 vaccine in February 2021.
Health Minister Silvia Lutucuta said seven million more doses would be delivered in April in partnership with COVAX.
Angola has so far reported 15,925 positive cases, 362 deaths, and 8,679 recoveries.
Egypt on Thursday took delivery of the first batch of China’s Sinopharm vaccine.
Morocco on Wednesday announced that it was gearing up for an ambitious COVID-19 vaccination program, aiming to vaccinate 80% of its adults in an operation starting this month.
The North African kingdom is pinning its hopes on two vaccine candidates, one developed by China’s Sinopharm and the other by Britain’s Oxford University and AstraZeneca.
It seeks to vaccinate 80% of its adults, or 25 million people, as soon as the vaccines get regulatory approval.
Lundi, le laboratoire Moderna, a affirmé que son vaccin protégerait contre les variantes britanniques et sud-africaines.
UCHealth is recruiting volunteers to participate in another large COVID-19 vaccine trial, the third underway at UCHealth locations.
‘Sesame Street,’ the long-running children's television show, is adding two new muppets who are Black, to deal with educating kids about the effects of racism
Here’s what you need to know about the new top diplomat, who hasn’t been much of a household name until now.
Senegal's President Macky Sall in a nationally televised ceremony on Thursday at the presidential palace in Dakar was administered a COVID-19 vaccine.
India has shattered a global record of daily coronavirus cases, reporting a grim 314,835 new infections in the last 24 hours.
The African Union announced in mid-January that at least 50 million vaccines would be available between April and June.
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced the closure of many of the country's beaches to fight a resurgence of COVID-19 infections in the run up to Christmas.
Ramaphosa also announced an extended nighttime curfew and increased restrictions on the sales of alcohol, which will now only be available Monday to Thursday between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m.
\"The festive season itself poses significant risk for the entire country. We have therefore been undertaking consultations in provinces, including at municipal level, on the measures that need to be taken to contain the second wave of infections\", said Cyril Ramaphosa, South Africa president.
All beaches will be closed from Dec. 16 until January in the Eastern Cape province and parts of the tourist area known as the Garden Route in the Western Cape.
In the Kwazulu-Natal province, beaches will be closed on public holidays including Christmas and New Year's Day.
Ramaphosa also extended a nighttime curfew from 11 p.m. until 4 a.m. and restaurants and bars must close at 10 p.m.
Ramaphosa said there are concerns that new infections are increasing rapidly and may overwhelm some hospitals in affected areas.
The rise has been blamed on people's failure to wear masks and practice social distancing, while large gatherings, especially parties, have been identified as superspreader events.
South Africa has recorded 7,999 new infections and 170 deaths in the last 24 hours, bringing the cumulative number of confirmed cases since the virus outbreak to 860,964.
The upcoming holiday season poses a greater risk as many people travel across provinces for vacations and to visit their families, said Ramaphosa.
He said his government wants to contain the virus without imposing restrictions that may hurt the economy.
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SANDALS and Beaches Resorts across the Caribbean were abuzz with excitement recently, as scores of returning guests checked in to celebrate the hotels' annual Reunion Week of activities.From October 19-23, resorts in Jamaica, Barbados, St Lucia, Grenada, and Antigua staged grand events, all of which were guided by the company's detailed Platinum Protocols of Cleanliness, a recent release said.
NNPA NEWSWIRE — \"I was on a Zoom in my office with Dr. [Anthony] Fauci when the verdicts came in,\" Dr. Rochelle Walenksy, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, recalled during a special live interview with the National Newspaper Publishers Association's (NNPA) \"Let It Be Known\" breaking news program. \"We were all relieved,\" Dr. Walensky assured. \"This is just a single moment. What we face as a nation is generations of racism and discrimination, and barriers for Black people. We can't erase 400 years in one single verdict, but this is one huge step forward, and we have to make many more huge steps forward.\"
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By Elaine Hegwood Bowen, M.S.J. The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s Zell Music Director Maestro Riccardo Muti recently led a coaching session with two chamber ensembles comprised of fellows from the Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative (CMPI), as well as current and past members of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago and Chicago Sinfonietta Project Inclusion Fellowship, who serve […]
Some of our favorite celebrities ventured out into the world for work, special occasions and fun times this week. A Vision In Black Tracee Ellis Ross
South Africa mobilises against the pandemic and orders 20 million coronavirus vaccine doses.
Scottie Pippen Mourns Loss Of Son The oldest child of Scottie Pippen, Antron Pippen, has died. In a statement shared on Twitter Monday afternoon, the basketball icon announced Antron's passing. 'I’m heartbroken to share that yesterday, I said goodbye to my firstborn son Antron. The two of us shared a love for basketball and we…
Fewer than 27,000 tests for the virus have been conducted in Somalia, a country of more than 15 million people, one of the lowest rates in the world
Zimbabwe has received its first batch of 200,000 doses of Sinopharm donated by the Chinese government in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic.
