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www.aframnews.com Earlier this month, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the use of the Pfizer vaccine for children ages 5-11. The move has garnered criticism and speculation about the vaccine’s effectiveness and health risks for children. Many parents are still unsure and are looking for more information about the vaccine for their children, […]
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.
By MOGOMOTSI MAGOME Associated Press JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa is seeing a dramatic rise in COVID-19 cases and bracing for increased hospitalizations and deaths, said the country's health minister Zweli Mkhize. 'It is important for us to recognize that this now is a second wave,' said Mkhize in a statement. 'There is going to be exponential growth. This means we must expect faster-rising numbers with a higher peak, possibly, than the first wave.' South Africa's new wave is likely to spike so quickly that it could overwhelm hospital capacities in some regions, he warned. South Africa's surge highlights that […]
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Cori Zaragoza | SDV&V Contributing Writer On December 5th and 6th, 2020, Common Ground Theater virtually premiered its monthly series of readings focused on “Uplifting Black Voices”. The series switches focus each month—this month was centered on telling stories inspired and written by black men. Each reading was directed by Yolanda Franklin and presented online […]
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A U.S. government advisory panel endorsed widespread use of Pfizer’s coronavirus vaccine Thursday, putting the country just one step away from launching an epic vaccination campaign against the outbreak that has killed close to 300,000 Americans. Shots could begin within days, depending on how quickly the Food and Drug Administration signs off, as expected, on the expert committee’s recommendation. “This […]
By Dwain Price NDG Sports This past Tuesday was the first time in the Dallas Cowboys’ illustrious 60-year history that they ventured out and played a game on a Tuesday. And judging by the results, they probably wish they’ll never have to play another game on a Tuesday. The Baltimore Ravens bludgeoned the Cowboys’ run […]
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The Toshao of Warapoka in Region One, Alan Henry yesterday said that the COVID-19 infection rate in the community of 500 may be much higher as not much testing is being done.
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[Premium Times] Governor Fintiri says the introduction of the second dose vaccine was part of renewed efforts to reduce morbidity and mortality rate from measles
BLACK AND minority ethnic (BME) workers have had to self-isolate at a much higher rate...
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OSLO, Norway — More than 1,000 Norwegians have filed a lawsuit against their government over COVID-19 quarantine restrictions that prevent them from using their weekend homes in nearby Sweden. This is the first Scandinavian lawsuit aimed [...]
By Sean Yoes AFRO Senior Reporter syoes@afro.com Donald John Trump has checked out and I am neither shocked nor surprised. It's been a month since Trump decisively lost his bid to fully implement authoritarianism in America in what would have undoubtedly been a catastrophic second term. Now he spends 99% of his time convincing the […]
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In the early weeks and months of the coronavirus pandemic, medics and health professionals working in hospitals around the world noticed that Covid-19 was hitting men harder than women. Now, a global analysis of over 3 million Covid-19 cases from January to June has found that male patients with the disease have 'almost three times the odds' of requiring admission to intensive care than female patients. What's more, men were almost 1.4 times more likely to die from Covid-19 than women - although both sexes have an equivalent risk of infection. The researchers analyzed data from 90 reports involving 46 countries and 44 US states. This data showed that, among the cases in the study, about 1.57 million were women and about 1.53 million were men. Yet when it came to data on over 12,000 admissions to hospital intensive care units, about 8,000 of those were men and 4,000 were women, the researchers found. And among the over 200,000 Covid-19 deaths included in the study, about 120,000 were men and 91,000 were women. The study, which published in the journal Nature Communications on Wednesday, didn't examine the reasons for the disparity. But the researchers - from the University College London and the University of Cape Town in South Africa - suggested the explanation is more likely due to biological differences than behavioral or socioeconomic ones. The many parts of the immune system that work together to defend the body against viruses do not operate exactly the same way in men and women, and the study said that more research is needed to determine which specific biological factors may be driving these differences. 'Men and women have differences in almost all arms of the immune system. These range from the early immune responses to viral infection, to T cell responses, B cell responses and immune memory,' said study author Dr. Kate Webb, a consultant pediatric rheumatologist at the University of Cape Town and The Francis Crick Institute in London. 'There are many potential reasons for these differences in immunity: hormones have immunological effects and women have two X chromosomes compared to one in men. X chromosomes are packed full of genes which code for immunity.' -CNN
In order to return to a welcome normalcy, we need to do our part—get the vaccine.
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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.
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Press Release - TB Alliance welcomes the Wits Health Consortium and the South African National Department of Health (DoH)’s announcement of an initiative to provide a new, shorter treatment regimen for people affected with highly drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis (TB). Funded by the United States Agency for International Development, a new clinical access program (CAP) will enroll 400 people in South Africa for treatment with a three-drug, six-month, all-oral regimen of bedaquiline, pretomanid and linezolid (know
