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The Ministry of Health said the positivity rate in the 13 regions average 21 per cent.
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.
As of Tuesday, Dec. 8, California only has one of its 58 counties in the orange (moderate tier) and three counties in the red (substantial tier) according to the state’s four-tier coronavirus tracking system. The state is no longer doing a weekly update and tier assignments may occur any day of the week and may […]
CMU under pressure to return payment for construction project The scandal-scarred Caribbean Maritime University (CMU) is being pressed to pay back $19.8 million to the Ministry of Transport and Mining after it failed to construct containerised...
[Radio Dabanga] Khartoum -- A digital meeting of the Sudanese, Egyptian and Ethiopian ministers of Foreign Affairs and Water Resources yesterday failed to reach agreement on a formula to continue negotiations on the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
[AfricaFocus] Editor's Note
[East African] East African countries have lost an estimated $7.8 billion worth of revenues on tax exemption and duty remission schemes over the past five years (2015-2019) translating to a revenue loss of $1.56 billion per annum, according to a study by the EAC Secretariat.
Ghana's incumbent president Nana Addo Akufo-Addo has been declared winner of the country's presidential election.
In an announcement on Wednesday, the country's election commission said Akufo Ado had polled 51.59 per cent as against main opposition candidate John Mahama's 47.36 per cent of votes.
\"At the end of the polls, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of the New Patriotic Party, obtained 6,730,413 votes, being 51.595% of the total valid votes cast.\" Jean Mensa, Chairperson of the electoral commission announced before an audience made up of observersm political party officials and journalists.
Last week both leading candidates had signed a solemn undertaking to resolve any electoral disputes through legal channels and called on their supporters to refrain from violence.
Earlier on Wednesday the police said five people had been killed from electoral violence since Monday. The Ghanaian Police Service said it recorded over 60 incidents.
\"Twenty-one of the incidents are true cases of electoral violence, six of which involve gunshots resulting in the death of five,\" it said.
On Tuesday, opposition leader John Mahama warned President Nana Akufo-Addo against any attempt to steal this week's election, as both sides claimed they were winning ahead of official results of the vote.
The elections have largely been deemed free and fair by observers but the strong statement by John Mahama raised tensions after Monday's presidential and parliamentary polls in a country known for stability.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Ministry of Health on Saturday announced 223 coronavirus from 7,748 samples analyzed in 24 hours.
[Premium Times] Market breadth was significantly positive as 49 equities emerged compared to seven losers.
[Nation] Budget experts have warned that the government is likely to breach the Sh9 trillion debt ceiling by early 2022 if the rate at which it is borrowing to support its budget and finance ambitious capital projects is anything to go by.
[Premium Times] Most African countries, including Nigeria, are banking on benefitting from the COVID-19 Vaccines Global Assess Facility, or Covax, the World Health Organization-backed programme
The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday disclosed that 41 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed, bringing the total number of known cases in Guyana to 6,510.
The article 41 new COVID-19 cases recorded appeared first on Stabroek News.
Chief Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health and Wellness Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie says the Ministry is working to address issues with COVID-19 testing.\tBisasor-McKenzie has indicated that there has been a drop in testing over the past few...
OREGON, United States (AP) - The first report cards of the school year are arriving with many more Fs than usual in a dismal sign of the struggles students are experiencing with distance learning.School districts from coast to coast have reported the number of students failing classes has risen by as many as two or three times - with English language learners and disabled and disadvantaged students suffering the most.
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...
[Monitor] A source at Mulago National Referral Hospital has revealed that the facility is facing a crisis of oxygen supply for patients in Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
The reintegration of more than 100 doctors who were laid off from the health sector has not eased the punishing shifts being worked by junior practitioners, many of whom are now unable to take vacation leave as a result of mandatory quarantine...
[Daily Trust] Last year, farmers were confronted with many issues that impacted negatively on productivity.
[Kubatana.net] The Zimbabwean government is obliged to ensure that the recently found Covid-19 vaccine is available to all citizens in an equitable manner and for free, Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has stated.
Weeks of agony ended in jubilation recently for more than a dozen students of Penwood High School in St Andrew, who have now learnt they did not all fail the 2020 English language exam offered by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC). Last...
[Nation] Deputy President William Ruto Saturday ended his three-day tour of the Coast region with a message to the two Building Bridges Initiative (BBI) principals - President Uhuru Kenyatta and ODM leader Raila Odinga - to \"give the people the document to read for themselves\".
Thirty-seven persons in the public school dorms across Guyana have tested positive for COVID-19, according to the Ministry of Health (MoH).
The article 37 COVID-19 cases confirmed from testing for new school term appeared first on Stabroek News.
Fatalities from COVID-19 have not increased in the past 24 hours, as the Ministry of Health and Wellness recorded no deaths directly linked to the infectious disease.\tThis means the death toll from the disease remains at 358. \tOne new death is...
The Ministry of Health on Sunday reported that a cluster of 26 positive COVID-19 cases have been diagnosed, originating from the Sandals resort.
