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By Victor Omondi In a clip that has since gone viral, a 76-year-old woman by the name Xiao Zhen Xie was seen being taken away from a white man who allegedly assaulted her as he was being wheeled away by paramedics. According to witnesses and the victim, an unknown white man unjustifiably assaulted the woman […]
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.
[Monitor] Health centres and hospitals across the country are running out of space for covid-19 patients as cases keep surging, Daily Monitor investigations reveals.
The seven-year-old daughter of NBA player DeMar DeRozan is being called a hero after reports surfaced that she was the... View Article
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[Capital FM] Nairobi -- Former Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko has hit at the national executive in a Saturday morning tweet rant, following his impeachment by the Senate on Thursday over among other things graft and abuse of office.
If the idea of a biopic about legendary soul singerDionne Warwickever comes to fruition, look no further for its leading actor, because the New Jersey […]
In the early weeks and months of the coronavirus pandemic, medics and health professionals working in hospitals around the world noticed that Covid-19 was hitting men harder than women. Now, a global analysis of over 3 million Covid-19 cases from January to June has found that male patients with the disease have 'almost three times the odds' of requiring admission to intensive care than female patients. What's more, men were almost 1.4 times more likely to die from Covid-19 than women - although both sexes have an equivalent risk of infection. The researchers analyzed data from 90 reports involving 46 countries and 44 US states. This data showed that, among the cases in the study, about 1.57 million were women and about 1.53 million were men. Yet when it came to data on over 12,000 admissions to hospital intensive care units, about 8,000 of those were men and 4,000 were women, the researchers found. And among the over 200,000 Covid-19 deaths included in the study, about 120,000 were men and 91,000 were women. The study, which published in the journal Nature Communications on Wednesday, didn't examine the reasons for the disparity. But the researchers - from the University College London and the University of Cape Town in South Africa - suggested the explanation is more likely due to biological differences than behavioral or socioeconomic ones. The many parts of the immune system that work together to defend the body against viruses do not operate exactly the same way in men and women, and the study said that more research is needed to determine which specific biological factors may be driving these differences. 'Men and women have differences in almost all arms of the immune system. These range from the early immune responses to viral infection, to T cell responses, B cell responses and immune memory,' said study author Dr. Kate Webb, a consultant pediatric rheumatologist at the University of Cape Town and The Francis Crick Institute in London. 'There are many potential reasons for these differences in immunity: hormones have immunological effects and women have two X chromosomes compared to one in men. X chromosomes are packed full of genes which code for immunity.' -CNN
[Monitor] Nigerian musician Stanley Omah Didia, alias Omah Lay, was on Tuesday night put on the first available plane at Entebbe International Airport and seen out of Uganda \"for the very good,\" officials have told this writer.
The Tuskegee Airmen have come out in support of Gen. Lloyd Austin, President-elect Joe Biden's nominee to serve as the... View Article
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The Winston-Salem/Forsyth County chapter of the NAACP has chosen Al Jabbar to become their next president.
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A police constable who was this morning struck from his motorcycle by another motorist has died. He has been identified as Fabian Morrison, who was attached to the Public Safety and Traffic Enforcement Branch. Details of the accident were not...
The Firearm Licensing Authority (FLA) today returned the firearm which it had seized in September this year from District Constable Orville Daniels, who is also a municipal cop with the Kingston and St Andrew Municipal Corporation.\tDaniels was...
South Africa recorded 6 709 new Covid-19 cases in the past 24 hours, with Health Minister Zweli Mkhize confirming a second wave has hit its shores.
Monday, Nov. 30, was a big day for African Americans and national politics. President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris announced members of its initial senior leadership team who will lead their Presidential Inaugural Committee. The committee is tasked with organizing activities surrounding the swearing-in ceremony on Jan. 20, 2021. Two of the members … Continued
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