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The Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory identified 516 new COVID-19 cases - 243 males and 273 females – from the 2,403 tests carried out on Tuesday, January 11. The new cases consisted of 87 persons under the age of 18, and 429 who were 18 years and older. There were 106 people in isolation facilities, […]
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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.
Georgia set a record Friday, June 26 for new COVID-19 cases recorded in a 24-hour period: 1,900 cases in a day. The previous record for most new cases reported in a day was Saturday, when Georgia reported 1,800 new cases. Before that, the biggest one-day increase had been 1,525 on April 17. As the number Continued
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The Ministry of Health has placed Rusizi under extra supervision after the Western Province District, which borders DR Congo and Burundi recorded five new Covid-19 cases in just a single day.
The patients were identified by the Ministry of Health as cross-border business operators, truck drivers who ply the Rusizi-Bukavu route, DR Congo, and one taxi motorcyclist.
Dr. Daniel Ngamije, the Minister of Health, said on radio that the five new patients, which were identified in Rusizi are under the ministry's management.
In the case of Rusizi, all five new cases were imported from DR Congo.
Dr. Ngamije explained that had it not been for the new cases in Rusizi District, inter-provincial travels would have been resumed.
Kenya has recorded 80 new Covid-19 cases after testing 3,102 samples.
During the daily coronavirus briefing, Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said 41 of the new cases were recorded in Nairobi, 20 in Mombasa, seven in Siaya, six in Kwale.
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he Covid-19 death tally remains 50, the CS said.
At the same time, the Health ministry said it projects new Covid-19 cases in Kenya will peak in September.
Speaking during the briefing, Health Director-General Patrick Amoth urged the public to keep observing Covid-19 guidelines to curb the spread of the disease.
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