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Thirty new COVID-19 cases were recorded yesterday with the majority being reported in Region Seven.
The article COVID-19 infections spike in Region 7 appeared first on Stabroek News.
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.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Ministry of Health has announced 719 more coronavirus cases picked from 4,732 samples which were tested on Saturday.
The Ministry of Health says that as of today one more person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.
The article Region Four man, 54, latest COVID fatality appeared first on Stabroek News.
The Ministry of Education is reporting that 16 of the 17 schools selected to participate in the pilot of face-to-face teaching began classes today.\tIt says Yallahs High School has asked to begin tomorrow because of flooding on the compound.\tThe...
Gov. JB Pritzker in isolation after possible COVID-19 exposure, office says By Mark Rivera, Leah Hope, Eric Horng and Alexis McAdams, ABC7 News Illinois officials announced a record 10,376 new COVID-19 cases and 49 additional deaths Friday. The death toll in Illinois has now crossed 10,000, with a total of 10,079 deaths, the Illinois Department […]
'The state of Indiana is on fire,' Gov. Holcomb says of virus' spread By Liz Nagy and Diane Pathieu, ABC7 News Indiana reported 5,853 new COVID-19 cases and 98 related deaths Wednesday. 'When you talk about counties being red, the state of Indiana is on fire,' Gov. Eric Holcomb said during his COVID-19 briefing Wednesday. […]
The Ministry of Public Works (MoPW) yesterday awarded some 100 contracts for weeding and cleaning across regions 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6.
The article Contracts for weeding and cleaning in five regions awarded appeared first on Stabroek News.
Western Bureau: Omar Sweeney, managing director of the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), has said a section of the Mt Salem Primary and Infant in St James has fallen into serious disrepair and has been condemned. The condemned building is...
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Thank you very much for providing the public with the daily dose of COVID-19 data.
The article The authorities must provide more useful COVID-19 data appeared first on Stabroek News.
And it was the second day in a row the country reported more than
The post The US just set a staggering new Covid-19 daily case record with more than 120,000 infections appeared first on L.A. Focus Newspaper.
Otina Scott was yesterday granted her release on $300,000 bail after she was charged with attempted murder after wounding a drinking partner during an argument.
The article Baramita woman on attempted murder charge after stabbing of drinking buddy appeared first on Stabroek News.
Jamaica on Wednesday recorded 38 more cases of COVID-19, with ages ranging from three to 85 years, pushing the tally to 13,368 with 1,649 being active.\tOf the new cases, 18 are males, 19 are females and one case is under investigation.\tNo...
[New Times] Rwanda Biomedical Centre (RBC) is planning the inclusion of Covid-19 tests in different health insurance schemes, The New Times has learned.
[The Herald] She succumbed to Covid-19 last night at the age of 48.
Texas on Wednesday became the first state with more than 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases, and California closed in on that mark as a surge of infections engulfs the country from coast to coast. In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said all restaurants, bars and gyms statewide will have to close at 10 p.m. starting […]
