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Members of the public are asked to note that the Ministry of Health and Wellness’ vaccine appointment website may be accessed at https://vaccine.gov.bb. Persons 50 years old and over may book the date, time and location of their vaccinations through the website. If anyone has queries concerning their appointment, or they are 50 years […]
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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.
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...
A STIGMA reportedly surrounding the Yallahs High School, St Thomas, after a student tested positive for COVID-19 has left at least one parent fuming. The news, which forced the institution to suspend face-to-face classes for the rest of the...
Jamaicans are urged not to create an environment in which youth are stigmatised because they have been identified as the age group with the highest number of COVID-19 cases. Founder of the Balaclavia Youth Club, Jordan Dressikie, expressed his...
As COVID-19 numbers continue to mount in Jamaica, the Government is expecting the arrival of infrastructure to build out a field hospital within two weeks. Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton disclosed on Thursday evening that the field hospital...
Guyana has recorded its 55th COVID-19 death.
A release from the Ministry of Health follows:
(MOH- GEORGETOWN) - The Ministry of Health (MOH) regrettably informs that as of 17:00hrs on September 12, 2020, one other person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.
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With human trafficking protests flaring up across the country on Wednesday, we look at the official SAPS list of 'kidnapping hotspots' in South Africa.
The Ministry of Health yesterday reported that 29 additional cases of COVID-19 have been recorded, taking the total number of cases recorded by Guyana to 6,105.
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This man was seen recently on Molynes Road, St Andrew showing how skilled he is on a bicycle.(Photo: Jason Tulloch)�
Managing Director of the Jamaica Urban Transport Company (JUTC), Paul Abrahams, has disclosed that 35 positive cases of COVID-19 have been recorded at the company’s corporate offices and that a total of 142 staff members had been placed in...
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) - A 12-year-old Jamaican girl has tested positive for the novel coronavirus on arrival in Barbados earlier this week, as The Bahamas, Trinidad and Tobago, and Guyana all recorded deaths and positive cases linked to the virus.Bridgetown said that the child tested positive for COVID-19 on arrival at the Grantley Adams International Airport following a flight from Kingston on board a Caribbean Airlines (CAL) aircraft.
Jamaica on Tuesday recorded one additional COVID-19 death along with 126 new cases.\tThe deceased is a 61-year-old St James woman who had multiple comorbidities.\tThe death tally now stands at 76.\tOf the new cases, the patients range between the ages...
WESTERN BUREAU Dr Marcia Graham, the medical officer of health (MOH) at the Westmoreland Health Department, says tourism players in the western parish are breaching the COVID-19 protocols with impunity, while residents enjoy no such latitude as...
Jamaica on Sunday recorded two more COVID-19 deaths, pushing the tally to 44.\tThe deceased are a 76-year-old man from Kingston & St Andrew and a 73-year-old man from St Catherine.\tBoth had comorbidities.\tThe health ministry is also reporting...
The Ministry of Health and Wellness has already spent $4 billion of the $5.6 billion it was allocated to fight the COVID-19 pandemic, which has so far claimed 77 lives and infected 5,588 Jamaicans. Permanent Secretary Dunstan Bryan said the $4...
A taxi driver was shot in the head on Tuesday night while attending a party in North East La Penitence.
The article West La Penitence taxi driver shot dead at party appeared first on Stabroek News.
(Trinidad Guardian) Chief Medical Officer Dr Roshan Parasram yesterday revealed that the Ministry of Health’s goal of increasing testing for COVID-19 is being hampered because people are continuing to refuse swabbing for the virus “in a lot of instances.”
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