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The 2021 ICC T20 World Cup will now be co-hosted by the United Arab Emirates as well as Oman, instead of India, the ICC confirmed on Tuesday.
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.
ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Kolkata Knight Riders superstars Andre Russell and Sunil Narine are the latest players from the just-concluded Caribbean Premier League to arrive for the historic Indian Premier League scheduled to bowl off next weekend.
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We wrap the latest sports news from around the world and here in South Africa and look ahead to tonight's football action.
Egypt on Saturday unveiled a plan to end the years-long civil war in Libya, in an initiative accepted by the commander of the Libyan eastern forces that have suffered heavy losses in recent weeks.
Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sissi announced the plan in Cairo, alongside Khalifa Haftar, the head of the Libyan National Army (LNA) and Agila Saleh, the chief of Libya's allied elected parliament.
El-Sissi told a news conference that the proposed plan, which he called the \"Cairo Declaration\" includes a ceasefire starting on Monday and the departure of foreign militias from Libya.
Election pathway
El-Sissi added that the plan also aims to pave the way for elections in the North African country and that it would encourage a \"return of normal life\" in Libya and also warned against continuing to look for a military solution to the conflict.
Read more: European states urge 'humanitarian truce' in Libya
Haftar's LNA has recently suffered significant military setbacks at the hands of the GNA, which is allied with Turkey and Qatar -- Egypt's regional rivals.
Rwanda on Thursday recorded 18 new coronavirus cases, the highest of the week, contributed mainly by citizens arriving from neighbouring countries.
The country has seen a rise in the number of positive cases since the beginning of June and has placed two border districts – Rusizi and Rubavu bordering the DRC – under total lockdown even as the rest of the country slowly eases back to normal life.
Coronavirus was detected among clusters of Rwandans repatriated from Tanzania and DR Congo, which led to the surge in the identified cases, Dr Sabin Nsanzimana, Director of Rwanda Biomedical Centre, told The East African.
No positive cases were reported from another group of 53 Rwandans repatriated from the United Arab Emirates in late April, most of who have been left quarantine and joined their families.
A group of 130 Rwandans coming from Uganda last week are also under quarantine, but no positive cases have been reported among them.
SOURCE: The Guardian - Dogs are better at detecting Covid-19 in humans than many fast lateral flow tests (LFTs), according to a French study which could see canines more widely deployed for mass virus screening in crowded places including airports. The trial, conducted in March and April by France’s national veterinary school and the clinical […]
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[Dalsan Radio] Somalia has rejected Arab League position to support Egypt in its dispute with Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.
(Reuters) - A record 269 million viewers tuned in for the opening week of this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL), which is being held in the United Arab Emirates due to the COVID-19 crisis, with viewing minutes up 15%, data released yesterday showed.
The article Opening week of IPL had record 269 mln viewers - study appeared first on Stabroek News.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) - India’s cricket board (BCCI) has received government permission to stage this year’s Indian Premier League (IPL) in the United Arab Emirates, the league’s chairman Brijesh Patel told Reuters yesterday.
The article Government nod clears the deck for IPL in UAE appeared first on Stabroek News.
The controversial suspension of one of the North West province’s senior clinicians two weeks ago has been lifted, with Professor Ebrahim Variava returning to his post as head of internal medicine at the Klerksdorp Tshepong Hospital.
[Premium Times] Nigeria ranks below the United Arab Emirates and Mexico.
Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon has asked Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony to release detailed information on Sputnik V shots purchased by Guyana.
The article Harmon asks for full details on Sputnik purchases appeared first on Stabroek News.
Banking malware attacks go up in three months
Thursday, June 4, 2020 0:01
By KEVIN ROTICH |
The uptick in detections is attributed to malicious spam attachments that were observed at the beginning of the year.
FILE PHOTO | NMG
The global banking sector witnessed an increase in malware attacks in quarter one of 2020 amid adoption of online banking following the outbreak of the coronavirus.
Banker', which accounted for more than a third of all banking malware detections.
Ursnif saw the most significant change — a jump from 5.9 percent of banking malware detections in quarter four 2019 to 13 percent in quarter one 2020,\" latest Threat Report shows.
LAHORE, Pakistan — India and Pakistan, the decades-old troubled neighbors, might have a new mediator in the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.) The U.A.E. has strengthened its image as a successful negotiator and mediator over the last couple of years with the landmark Abraham Accords between Israel and rival Arab states — a first-of-its-kind deal — in 2020, and the Ethiopia-Eritrea peace deal in 2018 […]
The post U.A.E. Has Taken Up An Enormous Task: Negotiating Peace Between India And Pak first appeared on The Florida Star | The Georgia Star.
Masaka Town dwellers have been left in panic after two motor vehicle mechanics were identified as some of the people whose samples tested positive for Covid-19 on the weekend.
The confirmed patients are mechanics working for a businessman in Masaka town, according to Mr Herman Ssentongo, the Masaka resident district commissioner.
Mr Ssentongo, who also chairs the district Covid-19 task force, said the duo could have contracted the virus from the driver of a cargo truck they repaired.
Masaka is among the first districts that recorded Covid-19 cases in late March after a businessman who had just returned from United Arab Emirates infected his wife and a daughter in Nyendo, a Masaka Town suburb.
Masaka Regional Referral Hospital has so far discharged four Covid-19 patients and remains with 21 patients, occupying all the existing beds at the isolation centre.
A consignment of 25,000 doses of Russia's Sputnik-V COVID-19 vaccine will be arriving at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri tomorrow, April 02, 2021 at 1:42 PM, according to a release from the Ministry of Health.
The article Russian COVID vaccines due tomorrow appeared first on Stabroek News.
Total confirmed cases = 8,068 (new cases = 229)
Total recoveries = 2,311
Total deaths = 233
Active cases = 5,524
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 25, 2020
May 25: 7,839 cases, Buhari on global impact, food sufficiency
\tPresident Buhari has stressed the global impact of COVID-19 describing it as a leveler between the developed and developing world.
Total confirmed cases = 7,839 (new cases = 313)
Total recoveries = 2,263
Total deaths = 226
Active cases = 5,350
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 24, 2020
May 22: 7,526 cases, no death recorded in 24-hours
\tNo virus-related death recorded in a day for the first time in the month of May 2020, according to records released close of day Saturday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
Total confirmed cases = 7,526 (new cases = 265)
Total recoveries = 2,174
Total deaths = 221
Active cases = 5,131
May 22: 7,261 cases, Buhari’s private Eid, chloroquine warning
\tPresident Buhari will be observing Eid under strict lockdown rules.
Total confirmed cases = 7,261 (new cases = 245)
Total recoveries = 2,007
Active cases = 5,033
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 22, 2020
May 22: 7,016 cases, Eid uproar, more evacuations expected
\tThe case count has passed the 7,000 mark reaching 7,016 according to stats as of close of day May 21.
Total confirmed cases = 7,016 (new cases = 339)
Total recoveries = 1907
Total deaths = 211
Active cases = 4,898
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 21, 2020
May 21: 6,677 cases, northern governors express concern
\tThe Northern Governors Forum, NGF, has expressed concern over the infection rates of COVID-19 across the region.
Global coronavirus infections topped nine million on Monday as the World Health Organization warned that the pandemic was accelerating and Saudi Arabia said it would allow a \"very limited\" number of pilgrims to the hajj next month.
Tedros said the greatest threat facing the world was not the virus itself, which has now killed over 465,000 people and infected nine million, but \"the lack of global solidarity and global leadership.\"
Brazil is the second worst-affected country behind the United States, where the number of deaths topped 120,000 on Monday and political infighting has prevented a unified policy.
Saudi Arabia announced it would allow a \"very limited\" number of pilgrims to its annual hajj ritual, which last year drew 2.5 million pilgrims from around the world.
Australians were warned on Monday to avoid travelling to Melbourne, as the second-biggest city tightened restrictions over fears of an upsurge in cases.
“For over 193 years, the Black Press of America has continued to stay on the frontlines of the struggles of Black Americans for freedom, justice, and equality,” proclaimed NNPA President and CEO Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. “On the night of the 2020 national elections in the United States, the NNPA added another historic chapter to the transformative legacy of the Black Press. For five hours in its 2020 election night live global broadcast, the NNPA produced and distributed an unprecedented news and commentary coverage of the political views and significance of Black America’s determinative impact on the 2020 elections.”
