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[New Dawn] The Cummings Africa Foundation continues its assessment tour of hospitals on Monday as it prepares to make interventions in the fight against the raging coronavirus here.
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.
The head of the Western Cape's health department, Keith Cloete, has said a cumulative total of 7 246 staff members have taken Covid-19-related leave since March.
The Ministry of Health says that as of today one more person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.
The article Region Four man, 54, latest COVID fatality appeared first on Stabroek News.
Forty-six more persons have tested positive for COVID-19 according to the Ministry of Health’s (MoH) dashboard for yesterday.
The article Forty-six new COVID cases reported appeared first on Stabroek News.
In the wake of recent reports of positive COVID-19 cases at the Golden Age Home in Kingston, the St James Municipal Corporation has stepped up protocols at the St James Infirmary, which it manages. Since the first case of COVID-19 on the island in...
WESTERN BUREAU: All Jamaicans are now required to undergo a COVID-19 test in order to check into the Hedonism II hotel in Negril. Only tourists originating in four US states – Arizona, Texas, Florida, New York – are expected to present a COVID-19...
There has been 110 more Covid-19 deaths, which brings the total number of fatalities to 14 889.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday revealed that 70 additional cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) have been recorded, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 4, 794 since the first was recorded in March.
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OTTAWA, (Reuters) - Canada yesterday approved its first COVID-19 vaccine and said initial shots will be delivered and administered across the country starting next week, while every Canadian will be able to be inoculated as early as the end of September.
The article Canada approves first COVID-19 vaccine, expects inoculations next week appeared first on Stabroek News.
by PublicSource Reporters Allegheny County Health Department [ACHD] reported 603 new COVID-19 cases and five new deaths Tuesday, bringing the county-wide totals to 29,007 positive cases and 514 deaths. The majority of these positive cases came from new PCR tests from the past two weeks. Six tests are more than a week old. The county … Continued
The post Levine ‘very concerned’ about hospital capacity; 603 new COVID cases reported in Allegheny County appeared first on New Pittsburgh Courier.
The Minister of Labour yesterday said that the Ministry of Health has confirmed that one staff member from the Co-operatives Department of the Ministry of Labour has tested positive for the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
The article Co-ops dep’t staff in quarantine after positive COVID test appeared first on Stabroek News.
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.
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Media Council of Kenya (MCK) has extended the validity of essential service Special Media Passes issued to non-journalist press staff to December 31 to facilitate their movement to and from work as a nationwide dusk-to-dawn curfew remains in force.
(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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THE Ministry of Health and Wellness is undertaking community consultations aimed at engaging stakeholders at the parish level in the process of heightening public awareness and adherence to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) infection-prevention measures.The first in the series of meetings was held digitally on Wednesday with representatives of civic, business and community groups, among others in Manchester.
With KwaZulu-Natal having seen a spike in COVID-19 cases, Premier Sihle Zikalala has said the province still has enough resources to attend to patients
Jamaica has recorded 24 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, pushing the national tally to 1,106.\tThe Ministry of Health and Wellness says 16 of the newly confirmed cases are men and eight are females, with ages ranging from 10 to 71 years....
Cases are Climbing
One thousand four hundred and ninety-nine (1,499)- the number of confirmed coronavirus cases within the last 24 hours in Morocco, announced Wednesday by the Ministry of Health. The death toll rose to 556, with 23 recorded additions over the last day. Moroccan officials reimposed lock-down and travel restrictions in Tangier Wednesday after this recent climb in confirmed Covid-19 cases. Adopting a strict approach to the enforcement of these sanitary regulations.
Abdessamad Lamrabet, Regional Secretary of the National Health Federation in Tangier, expressed some concern about the strictness of the Covid-19 prevention enforcement, “It is not normal to see the military reinforcements and to have police present in the city of Tangier and in particular to see armoured vehicles and police dispatchers at the entrance to our neighbourhoods, but Tangier is a lively and dynamic city.\"
Strict Travel Protocols
Public transportation will function at only 50% capacity and approved travel permits are required by individuals circulating between cities - with authorities handing out fines of 300 dirhams to those in violation of social distancing and mandatory face mask measures.
In addition, all forms of gatherings are prohibited and presence on beaches is banned - with many commercial centres and non-essential businesses to close at earlier hours.
On Thursday, August 6, the Moroccan authorities announced that they would extend the national state of health emergency through to the middle of September, as the rising case numbers indicate the continued spread of the coronavirus within the nation.
The Figures
As of Friday, August 7, 29,644 confirmed cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Morocco with 449 associated fatalities. These new figures now in the tens of thousands since the first case in the country was reported back in March. Infections may be on the rise but the recovery rate is still at an optimistic 70% as communicated by Mouad Mrabet, the coordinator of the National Center for Public Health Emergency Operations at the Ministry of Health.
The spread of the virus is expected to occur on an international level in the upcoming months.
The Western Cape has seen a whopping 53.4% increase in new Covid-19 cases in the last week.
The Ministry of Education is reporting that 16 of the 17 schools selected to participate in the pilot of face-to-face teaching began classes today.\tIt says Yallahs High School has asked to begin tomorrow because of flooding on the compound.\tThe...
The Court Administration Division is reporting that the Hanover Family Court will be closed today due to cases of COVID-19.\tIt says the closure is to allow the court time to effect changes to its operation as a result of positive COVID-19 tests....
THE Ministry of Health and Wellness has allocated $1.164 billion to provide meals at the Kingston Public Hospital (KPH) and the Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH).The three-year contract was signed between the South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) and the service provider, Patsy Lyn Caterers Limited, on Monday at the National Chest Hospital in Kingston.
Mayor Lightfoot and the Chicago Department of Public Health (CDPH) announced distribution plans for the COVID-19 vaccine when it becomes available with a commitment to allocate initial doses to all 34 hospitals in the city and to ensure the individuals and communities most impacted by the pandemic are prioritized in the weeks and months to … Continued
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