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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.

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Mumbai, India - The government of India has proposed raising the smoking age from 18 to 21, banning the sale of loose cigarettes, and doing away with designated smoking areas in public places. The proposal also includes provisions for increasing the penalty for selling tobacco products to anyone under the legal smoking age from two years' imprisonment and a fine […]

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\tFive more people have recovered from COVID-19 in the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Wellness has revealed. There are no new infections. \tThis brings the number of persons who are now well to 620 and the percentage of total...

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Dr. Anthony Fauci says the United States is not in total control of the coronavirus pandemic and predicts the nation could eventually see 100,000 new COVID-19 cases a day. As of Monday, the U.S. averaged nearly 40,000 new cases daily over the past week, a 40% increase compared to data compiled by Johns Hopkins []

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South Africa edges closer to the one million mark for tests conducted, but the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 has now risen to 50 879.

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[This Day] With 930 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in a single day, Nigeria yesterday recorded its worst certified transmission of the deadly virus that has so far killed 1,200 people and infected a total of 75,062 since the first case was reported on February 28.

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It seems Kodak Black will have to do his time as it was assigned. He was recently was told good luck with that regarding his request to shave his sentence down. As spotted on HipHopDX the Florida native got some bad news regarding his current bid. Last year the rapper had asked that he get an […]

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