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The Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre and the Ministry of Health’s, Dis-ability and Rehabilitation Services held a closing ceremony yesterday for a four-day Prosthetic Capacity Building Workshop during which a total of 33 persons received prosthetic limbs.
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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.
Tiffany Haddish has teamed up with the nonprofit Ready to Succeed to launch an internship program for foster youth.
THE Government is thinking about building a new health facility on the grounds of one of the country's existing hospitals, instead of going ahead with its plan to set up a 72-bed field hospital at the National Arena in Kingston.
Responding to questions at the weekly COVID-19 Conversations virtual press conference at the Ministry of Health and Wellness in Kingston on Wednesday, Portfolio Minister Dr Christopher Tufton said that although the contract has been signed for the field hospital, the matter is being discussed internally as to whether to continue with the plans.
“One of the things I have said to the team is that we should look at the existing contract or arrangements, in terms of expenditure, and look at an existing hospital and see if we could add a facility, so that after COVID-19 you would still have the facility as opposed to going to the National Arena and building out something that you may have to dismantle over time,” he said.
At the same time, Dr Tufton said there are concerns that as the country moves forward with the new normal way of living with the COVID-19, and as the border reopens and movements become unrestricted, the risks associated with the virus will be greater.
“We are seeing evidence of that with the controlled re-entry, where we are seeing a number of persons testing positive,” Dr Tufton said, adding that 15 repatriated Jamaicans have tested positive for the virus, up to Wednesday.
THE WORK of the National Council for Senior Citizens (NCSC), the umbrella organisation which provides support to senior citizens, was enhanced by a contribution of J$1 million, courtesy of The Jamaica National Group.
Cassandra Morrison, executive director of the NCSC, who was a guest on the JN Circle Catch Up virtual series on May 14, said the funds will be used to provide care packages to its members.
Claudine Allen, member ombudsman of The Jamaica National Group and team lead for the JN Circle, said The Jamaica National Group was happy to make a donation to the council.
The executive director said the NCSC continues to work with the Ministry of Health and Wellness to craft messages so that seniors can understand; and they work with the volunteers, on the ground, to pass on relevant messages.
She also pointed out that the National Health Fund has been in communities providing support in filling prescriptions for seniors, and local corporate entities, such as supermarkets, have been delivering food items.
Fifty-one new cases of the novel coronavirus were yesterday recorded in seven of Guyana’s ten administrative regions as cases continue to rise.
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