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Forty-seven men and 59 women were the most recent persons diagnosed with COVID-19. They were identified from the 1,218 tests conducted by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory on Monday, December 6. Of the 106 new cases, 14 persons were under the age of 18, and 92 were 18 years and older. Those persons in […]
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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.
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The Western Cape has seen a whopping 53.4% increase in new Covid-19 cases in the last week.
No new COVID cases after latest tests
For a fourth day, Guyana yesterday reported that testing had not found any new cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
The Public Health Ministry said the total number of cases remained at 153 after 20 new tests were done.
The total number of persons tested stood at 1,719 in the latest reporting by the ministry.
The 60 Ceres Secondary pupils, who were quarantined at their school hostel after four tested positive, have been released after no new Covid-19 cases were reported.
[New Times] The travel ristriction on Rubavu District that has been in place since early June, has been lifted following an evaluation of the Covid-19 situation in the country.
Some Black-owned businesses are seeing a surge in interest as a result of the protests against racism and police brutality. Anita Bennett visited Simply Wholesome market in Los Angeles, which has had an influx of new customers thanks to social media and calls to support Black businesses.
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MOSCOW, (Reuters) - More than 9,500 runners competing in Moscow’s annual half-marathon yesterday wore masks and gloves in the starting area, had their temperature checked and were told to observe social distancing rules because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Ministry of Health yesterday said that two more persons who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died.
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Total confirmed cases = 8,915 (new cases = 182)
Total recoveries = 2,592
Total deaths = 259
Active cases = 6,064
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 28, 2020
May 28: 8,788 cases, Kogi records case
\tKogi State became the last but one state to record infections.
Total confirmed cases = 8,733 (new cases = 389)
Total recoveries = 2,501
Total deaths = 254
Active cases = 5,978
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 27, 2020
May 27: 8,344 cases, chloroquine treatment to continue
\tThe director of Nigeria’s National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (Nafdac), Mojisola Adeyeye, has disclosed that clinical trails for virus treatment using chloroquine will continue despite a recent move by the WHO to suspend a similar trial over safety concerns.
Total confirmed cases = 8,344 (new cases = 276)
Total recoveries = 2,385
Total deaths = 249
Active cases = 5,710
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 26, 2020
May 26: 8000+ cases, Africa’s 4th most impacted
\tCases in Nigeria breached the 8,000 mark on Monday evening when the NCDC announced 229 new cases.
Total confirmed cases = 8,068 (new cases = 229)
Total recoveries = 2,311
Total deaths = 233
Active cases = 5,524
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 25, 2020
May 25: 7,839 cases, Buhari on global impact, food sufficiency
\tPresident Buhari has stressed the global impact of COVID-19 describing it as a leveler between the developed and developing world.
Total confirmed cases = 7,839 (new cases = 313)
Total recoveries = 2,263
Total deaths = 226
Active cases = 5,350
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 24, 2020
May 24: 7,526 cases, no death recorded in 24-hours
\tNo virus-related death recorded in a day for the first time in the month of May 2020, according to records released close of day Saturday by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC).
List of U.S. communities with African-American majority populations in 2000 - Wikipedia
List of U.S. communities with African-American majority populations in 2000
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The following is a list of United States cities, towns, and unincorporated areas (Census Designated Places) in which a majority (over 50%) of the population is African American or Black, according to data from the 2000 Census. This list does not include cities such as Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in which, according to the 2000 Census, merely a plurality (as opposed to a majority) of the residents are African American. The list below is organized by state and, within each state, by population size. The percentage of each citys population that is African American is listed in parentheses next to the citys name.
Contents
1 National rankings 1.1 Places with over 100,000 people
1.2 Places with between 25,000 and 100,000 people
1.3 Places with fewer than 25,000 people
2 Alabama 2.1 Places with over 100,000 people
2.2 Places with between 25,000 and 100,000 people
2.3 Places with fewer than 25,000 people
3 Arkansas 3.1 Places with between 25,000 and 100,000 people
3.2 Places with fewer than 25,000 people
4 California 4.1 Places with between 25,000 and 100,000 people
4.2 Places with fewer than 25,000 people
5 Connecticut 5.1 Places with fewer than 25,000 people
6 Delaware 6.1 Places with between 25,000 and 100,000 people
7 District of Columbia 7.1 Places with over 100,000 people
8 Florida 8.1 Places with over 100,000 people
8.2 Places with between 25,000 and 100,000 people
8.3 Places with fewer than 25,000 people
9 Georgia 9.1 Places with over 100,000 people
9.2 Places with between 25,000 and 100,000 people
9.3 Places with fewer than 25,000 people
10 Illinois 10.1 Places with between 25,000 and 100,000 people
10.2 Places with fewer than 25,000 people
11 Indiana 11.1 Places with between 25,000 and 100,000 people
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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Data News Weekly Staff Edited Report Across the nation there is an uptick in new COVID-19 cases that is making cities and states to decide to take other actions to contain the pandemic. Recently, New [...]
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Dar es Salaam — Efforts by individual countries in the East Africa region to tackle the spread of the novel coronavirus across borders yesterday saw Kenya ban the movement of pedestrians and passenger s in and out of the country.
It has also emerged that when the Heads of State of the East African Community held a virtual consultative meeting on the pandemic on May 12, Tanzania reportedly requested for a bilateral meeting with Rwanda to iron out outstanding issues on the movement of cargo trucks between the two countries, according to Rwanda's Foreign Affairs Minister Dr Vincent Biruta who was quoted by New Times newspaper of Rwanda.
Countries such as Rwanda have imposed requirememnts of a relay system that would allow handing over of cargo trucks to Rwandan drivers at border points, offloading cargo at border points as well as Covid-19 clearance certificates for truck drivers.
When addressing Kenyans from State House in Nairobi yesterday, President Kenyatta said over the last one week a total of 43 positive cases recorded in the country had been imported from the neighbouring Somalia and Tanzania.
The President further noted that 78 truck drivers who were foreign nationals tested positive for Covid-19 and were denied entry into Kenya at different border crossings.
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Dr. Anthony Fauci says the United States is “not in total control” of the coronavirus pandemic and predicts the nation could eventually see 100,000 new COVID-19 cases a day.
As of Monday, the U.S. averaged nearly 40,000 new cases daily over the past week, a 40% increase compared to data — compiled by Johns Hopkins University — from a week ago, CNBC reports.
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“We are now having 40,000-plus new cases a day.
According to Dr. Fauci, director of the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, 50% of all new COVID-19 cases are coming from Florida, California, Texas and Arizona.
“Congregation at a bar, inside, is bad news,” Fauci said, citing the surge in COVID-19 cases in the U.S.
“I think we need to emphasize the responsibility that we have both as individuals and as part of a societal effort to end the epidemic that we all have to play a part in that,” Fauci added.
The Somali health ministry on Monday confirmed 95 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total tally of infections to 1,689.
Fawziya Abikar, health minister, said 31 people recovered from COVID-19, bringing the total number of people who have been discharged from hospitals to 235.
The minister said five patients succumbed to the disease, raising the total number of deaths to 66.
Somalia has taken urgent measures to counter the effects of COVID-19 and contain the spread of the virus, including closing schools, banning large gatherings, and suspending both international and domestic passenger flights.
Twenty-eight new COVID-19 cases were recorded yesterday after 329 persons were tested.
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The outcomes of such proactive measures are bearing their fruits as no new COVID-19 cases have been reported for the last 18 days.
He dwelt on the various actions taken by the Government at the right time to prevent the propagation of the virus since the first three cases of Covid-19 were detected in Mauritius.
He emphasised that after the first COVID-19 related death, Government has immediately imposed the confinement and curfew order to limit the spread of the virus in the interest of one and all.
He recalled, amongst others, the distribution of basic foodstuffs to 45 000 vulnerable families as well as the Wage Assistance Scheme put in place to cater for 243 000 employees and other measures implemented to alleviate the population from the burden of the COVID-19 situation.
The Attorney General also reassured the population on the various queries as to the provisions in the two legislations, namely the COVID-19 (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill and the Quarantine Bill and brought several clarifications on the various laws.
Minister of Health Zweli Mkhize announced there had been 13 172 new Covid-19 cases in the last 24 hours to take South Africa's confirmed infections to a total of 324 221.
12 June 2020 -- Sixteen (16) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 1584 samples tested today.
This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to five hundred and ten (510).
The number of active cases is a hundred and eighty-seven (187) and two (2) deaths.
The new cases are related to the Rusizi cluster and repatriated Rwandans, and have been isolated and contacts traced.
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Los Angeles City Mayor Eric Garcetti delivered news surrounding the COVID-19 outbreak.
June 23 marked the day mobile testing sites came online, the mission is to make testing flexible and available to more people across the county.
Mayor Garcetti continued with a very straight forward message and he outlined four points: COVID-19 is still here, COVID-19 is still dangerous, Los Angeles is adding more testing, and lastly Garcetti emphasized the need for precaution.
Garcetti touched on updates within renters assistance, on June 23, the county announced the extension of the eviction moratorium.
Mayor Garcetti is looking for ways to change the narrative of underserved and overlooked groups within the city, through multiple levels of resources that include renters assistance, Angeleno Cards, and a number of programs geared towards families that are currently experiencing their darkest days.
The Department of Health has recorded 1 346 new Covid-19 cases, bringing the cumulative number of detected ones to 663 282.
Governor JB Pritzker on Monday announced the launch of Illinois’ statewide contact tracing program for COVID-19 cases in two pilot counties as the state begins to fine-tune its latest weapon to fight the novel coronavirus pandemic.
Contact tracing, which was used early on in the state’s coronavirus outbreak when the number of cases was manageably small, consists of tracers interviewing people who have newly tested positive about who they had significant contact with in the past 48 hours.
The two counties were chosen “for having significant needs in terms of case numbers in vulnerable populations, a capacity to grow their contact tracing and great existing collaborations of public health personnel, medical students and volunteers already on the ground,” Pritzker said.
The governor said Illinois’ contact tracing program will consist of three parts: a disease reporting software, a common management platform and an app to be used by coronavirus patients and the people they came in contact with.
People interested in becoming part of the contact tracing program, including becoming a tracer, should visit IDPH’s on Monday reported 2,294 new cases of COVID-19, as well as 59 new deaths.
Guyana yesterday recorded 15 new cases of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
As a result, the total number of positive cases stands at 230 since the outbreak in the country in March.
During the Ministry of Public Health’s daily COVID-19 update yesterday, it was revealed that 68 new tests were done during the last cycle of testing, bringing the total number of persons tested so far to 2,423.
Since the start of the first phase of the re-opening plan for Guyana on June 18th, there has been an increase in the number of cases as 47 persons have tested positive out of some 350 persons that have been tested between June 18th and yesterday.
