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[Monitor] Over the past two weeks since President Museveni announced a virus induced lockdown to contain the surging Covid-19 cases, the number of people testing positive for Covid19 has been dropping.
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.
[The Herald] Zimbabwe reported 21 more Covid-19 deaths and 820 new cases yesterday as the pandemic continues to tear across the country.
[Nairobi News] BBC journalist Ciru Muriuki has revealed that her father died from Covid-19 as she urged her fellow Kenyans to take the disease very seriously.
The Supreme Court of Judicature is moving ahead with the planned restart of criminal trials, which have been on hold since the local COVID-19 outbreak in March of this year and it is assuring that all necessary arrangements have been made to ensure the safety of court users.
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By MAURICIO SAVARESE and DAVID BILLER Associated Press SAO PAULO (AP) — Hospital staff and relatives of COVID-19 patients rushed to provide facilities with oxygen tanks just flown into the Amazon rainforest's biggest city as doctors chose which patients would breathe amid dwindling stocks and an effort to airlift some of them to other states. As heavy rain poured down Thursday in Manaus, Rafael Pereira carried a small tank containing five cubic meters of oxygen for his mother-in-law at the 28 de Agosto hospital. He didn't want to be interviewed because of his stress, but he looked relieved when the […]
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The Minister of Labour yesterday said that the Ministry of Health has confirmed that one staff member from the Co-operatives Department of the Ministry of Labour has tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
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Two new COVID-19 deaths were yesterday recorded as 30 more cases of the virus were also reported.
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LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) - Every adult in Britain will have been offered a coronavirus vaccination by the autumn, Health Secretary Matt Hancock said yesterday, in the UK's biggest ever inoculation campaign. Hancock said public health officials are currently vaccinating 200,000 people daily, as they race to meet a target of inoculating 15 million of the most vulnerable by mid-February.
Press Release - 17 September 2020 | GENEVA – The World Health Organization (WHO) is calling on governments and health care leaders to address persistent threats to the health and safety of health workers and patients.
[Nation] As Covid-19 cases continued to climb sharply, Ethiopia's Ministry of Health on Sunday announced that the country will start manufacturing its own test kits with China's help.
APPROXIMATELY 50 doctors who studied overseas and have returned to the island to practise have been left in limbo, after learning that the mandatory orientation process set aside for them has been delayed 'until further notice'.
The Ministry of Health and Wellness has been charged with inspecting the 17 schools slated to reopen under a two-week pilot this month and installing a rapid-response team to cauterise spread if coronavirus cases break out among students, faculty,...
As COVID-19 numbers continue to mount in Jamaica, the Government is expecting the arrival of infrastructure to build out a field hospital within two weeks. Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton disclosed on Thursday evening that the field hospital...
