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Former Minister of Social Transformation Hamilton Lashley has urged the Government to expand the social safety net to protect Barbadians from the increasing cost of living. He said given the developments related to the unrest in Russia and Ukraine, Barbados must move swiftly to prepare itself for the external shocks that will impact negatively on […]
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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.
[Africa Renewal] First of its kind #AfricaYouthLead policy paper is a result of continent-wide consultations, focus groups and surveys in English, Swahili, French, and Arabic.
[Premium Times] The online lectures are being conducted by adjunct lecturers.
[The Herald] The Minister of Defence and War Veterans Affairs, as chairperson of the Covid-19 Ad-Hoc Inter-Ministerial Task Force, presented an update report on the country's response to the Covid-19 outbreak, which was adopted by Cabinet.
[Daily Trust] President Muhammadu Buhari has sworn in the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, for another five-year term.
WESTERN BUREAU: Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton all but declared the parish of Westmoreland Jamaica’s new COVID-19 epicentre, telling the nation’s Parliament on Tuesday that with more than 100 new confirmed cases, including 12 deaths in the...
[SNA] Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Dr. Heba Mohamed Ali Ahmed, announced, Wednesday, the start of the comprehensive population, agricultural and animal census campaign, which will start activities on April 14, 2021, and end on April 30, 2022.
The plant shop erected on the government reserve just outside of Pigeon Island on the East Coast of Demerara, has now been ordered by the Ministry of Local Government and the Better Hope NDC to be dismantled by the end of this week.
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UNITED NATIONS (CMC) - Caribbean Community (Caricom) countries have supported a United Nations draft resolution on sustainable fisheries, as delegates reflected on how the novel coronavirus pandemic derailed what the UN said should have been a watershed year for international action on the world's oceans.
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has called for the establishment of a Caribbean Recovery and Resilient Trust Fund to assist the region deal with the impact of natural and other disasters including the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic which has severely impacted the economies of the 15-member regional integration grouping, CARICOM.
[Cameroon Tribune] Dr Godwin Nchinda, Senior Immunologist, Deputy Director General, Head of Vaccinology Laboratory, CIRCB.
[This Day] The Senate yesterday expressed displeasure at reports that the nation loses over $120 million annually to the patronage of foreign shipping firms in the shipment of petroleum products.
[IPS] United Nations -- Will four strong contenders for permanent seats in the UN Security Council (UNSC)- Germany, India, Japan and Brazil--help break the monopoly now being held by the big five, namely the US, UK, France, China and Russia?
[Nation] Growing up, Teresia Wanjiru wanted to become a doctor. She believed that a good career would be their ticket out of Mathare slums, where she and her siblings were raised by a single mother.
GWEN DERU HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! TODAY… **COMEDIAN DARREN KNIGHT’S SOUTHERN MOMMA AND ‘EM.at the StarDome Comedy Club. **READ THE BIRMINGHAM TIMES. Get all the latest news **WATCH LOTS OF MOVIES …after dinner and with the family and friends. FRIDAY… **COMEDIAN DARREN KNIGHT’S SOUTHERN MOMMA AND ‘EM at the StarDome Comedy Club. SATURDAY… **SATURDAYS IN THE GARDENS […]
[Addis Fortune] Ethnic conflict has caused thousands of hectares of farmland to go unharvested or be left unplanted in recent years. Alongside the devastating locust invasion, the conflicts have exacerbated food shortages and increased inflation, reports HAGOS GEBREAMLAK, FORTUNE STAFF WRITER.
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Jamaica Hotel and Tourist Association (JHTA) President Clifton Reader is inviting Jamaicans in the Diaspora to book hotel stays on the resilient corridors of their native land for Christmas vacation.
(Jamaica Observer) APPROXIMATELY 450,000 Jamaicans are to be immunised against the novel coronavirus next year, when the first batch of vaccines are expected to be shipped to the island, Health and Wellness Minister Dr Christopher Tufton has reported.
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By YULIA ALEXEYEVA Associated Press IRKUTSK, Russia (AP) — As coronavirus resurged across Russia this fall, one of the most common complaints from people with symptoms who were self-isolating at home was that they had to wait hours or sometimes days before a visiting doctor would arrive to check on them. Record-breaking numbers of confirmed infections have strained the country's health care system to its limits and left doctors all across Russia inundated with demands for house calls for virus patients. 'We have already started to choke, with our doctors making 20-25 house calls a day,' Vera Klyuyeva, head of […]
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THE CARIBBEAN’S living resources – from coral reefs to seagrass, mangroves, fish and shellfish, all of which contribute to the region’s multibillion-dollar blue economy – face an uphill battle for survival in the changing climate. This is detailed...
