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The Ministry of Health says that another person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.
The article Woman, 81, latest COVID fatality appeared first on Stabroek News.
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.
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Guyana is now in the hands of a new government and there is much work to be done with the aim of bringing relief to the people in every aspect of infrastructure works.
The article Roads will open up Guyana for development especially in farming appeared first on Stabroek News.
One company has so far applied to register the use of the drug Ivermectin locally, but Chief Medical Officer Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie says that a bioequivalence study, which is necessary for approval, has not yet been submitted. The Medical...
Q: Are consular services currently being offered at the US Embassy during the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic?
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - Trinidad and Tobago yesterday launched a new initiative aimed at luring tourist to the oil-rich two-island republic, with officials indicating there were airlines that have expressed interest in flying to the country in the post-coronavirus era.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday confirmed the detection of 36 more cases of COVID-19 from the results of 556 tests that were done.
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Pushing aggressively for herd immunity in Jamaica within the new fiscal year, the Holness administration announced on Tuesday a $60-billion allocation aimed at purchasing COVID-19 vaccines and dedicated to social and economic recovery under an...
[Kubatana.net] The Zimbabwean government is obliged to ensure that the recently found Covid-19 vaccine is available to all citizens in an equitable manner and for free, Zimbabwe Association of Doctors for Human Rights (ZADHR) has stated.
[Nation] Failure to pay a clearance fee of Sh5 million led to wastage of life-saving vaccines worth Sh180 million donated to Kenya to help protect women and children from five deadly diseases.
(Trinidad Guardian) T&T is set to receive between 100,000 to 120,000 doses of the AstraZeneca two-dose vaccine by the end of February into March.
The article 120,000 COVID vaccines for T&T during 1st quarter appeared first on Stabroek News.
[Nairobi News] Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has asked the ministry of health to pay all outstanding medical bills for the late Dr Stephen Mogusu, who succumbed to Covid-19 comlications on Monday.
Police are still working to positively identify the decomposed body of a man who was found dead in a Second Avenue, Bartica, Region Seven home on Saturday.
The article Body found in Bartica house may be pensioner appeared first on Stabroek News.
