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(Trinidad Guardian) Currently, some 195,070 people in the country are fully vaccinated, having received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine—either Sinopharm or AstraZeneca—inching closer to the 200,000 mark.
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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.
Sierra Leone has today recorded one of its highest daily numbers of cases of COVID-19.
Today’s report of a looming COVID-19 crisis in Sierra Leone, comes as the country confirms its first death of a doctor from the virus.
A statement published by the Junior Doctors Association of Sierra Leone (JUDASIL) says: “We note with grief and shock the passing of our senior colleague and teacher – Dr. Samuel B. Seisay, who succumbed to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in the early hours of yesterday.
Yesterday, there was report on news media about the appointment by president Bio, of a Nigerian medical practitioner – Dr. Laoluwa Adejayan, as the new Head of Sierra Leone’s COVID-19 Task Force, with a 100 percent increase in his salary to $20,000 a month.
The overwhelming majority of the total number of 505 COVID-19 cases confirmed in Sierra Leone so far, are in the capital Freeteown – with 412 recorded cases.
[Nation] The Nairobi metropolitan area is the new epicentre of Covid-19 infections. This emerged as the virus caseload in Kiambu surpassed that of Mombasa, pushing the number of confirmed cases across the country to 30,636 and 487 deaths.
Dear Editor,
As a recovered COVID-19 patient, there seems to be a new and welcome wave in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
The article We must be given the right to once again put food on the table appeared first on Stabroek News.
Kenya’s Covid-19 infection rate continued to rise Monday as deaths also hit a new high, just a week after most of the containment measures to combat the disease were relaxed.
As lockdown restrictions are easing up around the world, travelers are reviving their plans and islands are on top of many lists because they make great vacation destinations. Most people troop to the Caribbean or to African islands and these exotic locations are perfect for either a solo trip, family, or couple vacation. The top...
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[Nation] A spike in coronavirus infections has cast doubt on the anticipated full reopening of schools on Monday, with representatives of teachers and parents now urging caution.
Jamaica has recorded 17 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, bringing to 1,146 the total number of confirmed positives.\tAlso in the last 24 hours, recoveries moved to 770, as six additional persons were released from care, according to the...
Five Covid-19 patients have been discharged from Masaka and Arua regional referral hospitals after recovering from the virus.
At Masaka hospital, the recovered patient is a 46-year-old Burundian refugee who has been at the facility's isolation centre since April 21.
In Arua hospital, four truck drivers from Tanzania were discharged last Friday.
While discharging the Masaka patient last week, Dr Nathan Onyachi, the hospital director, hailed his medical team for working tirelessly to save the refugee's life.
Dr Mark Jjuuko, the officer-in-charge of the hospital's coronavirus isolation centre, lauded Ministry of Health and the facility's administration for supporting health workers in the fight against the pandemic.
Another grim milestone for South Africa lurks, as the COVID-19 death toll approaches the 4 000 mark.
