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The Ministry of Health said the positivity rate in the 13 regions average 21 per cent.
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 Ministry of Health has named the members of a broad-based National COVID-19 Vaccines Task Force in preparation for the arrival and roll out of the inoculation campaign against COVID-19 in Guyana.
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Initiative aimed at luring tourists to the oil-rich twin island republic with officials indicating that there were airlines that have expressed interest in flying to the country in the post coronavirus era.
[New Times] The Government's commitment to eradicate malnutrition has seen it triple the funding that it injects into the process, rising from Rwf18 to Rwf56bn between 2015 and 2018, members of both chambers of parliament heard on Tuesday.
[Nation] Evidence of real economic recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic has started to manifest itself, with the Kenya Revenue Authority (KRA) for the first time surpassing its revenue collection target in December.
As of Tuesday, Dec. 8, California only has one of its 58 counties in the orange (moderate tier) and three counties in the red (substantial tier) according to the state’s four-tier coronavirus tracking system. The state is no longer doing a weekly update and tier assignments may occur any day of the week and may […]
THE United Kingdom Government has publicly commended Jamaica for its work on the international stage to curb the impacts of climate change, calling the country 'a bastion of climate ambition'.
[Monitor] By Bill Oketch
GRADE SIX students at Holy Family Infant and Primary School achieved 100 per cent tech accessibility, following a donation of 45 tablets from past student Bruce Scott, partner at PwC Jamaica, and his fellow PwC partners, to the institution....
Q: Are consular services currently being offered at the US Embassy during the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic?
[Monitor] The gain in the US Dollar globally has seen the Uganda shilling depreciating by 0.3 per cent in the last three days.
The Barbados health ministry yesterday issued a public apology to Sandals Barbados, saying that three people detained by the police for alleged breaches of COVID-19 protocols had no connection with the resort chain.The apology came a day after Sandals Barbados denied there was any breach of the COVID-19 protocols on its Christ Church property, and insisted that none of its guests were involved in related matters with the police.
The Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) says that fiscal indiscipline at the National Treasury is the reason the country’s public debt has grown exponentially in recent past. But even as the public debt continues to expand, PBO says Kenya has no option but to borrow more externally to finance the 2021/22 budget as the country experiences revenue constraints that existed even before Covid-19 made an unwelcome appearance. However, to borrow more, the National Treasury has to get Parliament to amend the Public Finance Management Act (National Government) Regulations of 2015 to increase the debt ceiling from the current Sh9 trillion. “There are serious credibility concerns on the National Treasury in fiscal management,” the report by the PBO says. National Treasury Cabinet Secretary Ukur Yattani was not available to respond to the issues raised by PBO, which advises parliament on fiscal issues. Debt ceiling The concerns by PBO come even as the National Treasury plans to present its proposed amendments to the law to increase the country’s debt ceiling by Sh3 trillion. In November 2019, Parliament amended the law to increase the country’s debt ceiling from 50 per cent of the gross domestic product (GDP) in the net present value (NPV) to a numerical figure of Sh9 trillion. But as of September 2020, the country’s public debt stood at Sh8.41 trillion, meaning that the available borrowing space at the time was Sh590.92 billion shy from the debt limit. With a budget deficit of Sh1.059 trillion in the current financial year’s Sh3 trillion budget, according to the 2020 Budget Review Outlook Paper (BROP), PBO’s fears are that the debt ceiling could be breached by June this year. “Given the prevailing budget deficit, the projected breach of the debt limit is likely to be at the end of June 2020/21,” PBO warns . Section 50 (2) of the PFM Act, 2012, provides that the national government may borrow money in accordance with the law and shall not exceed a limit set by Parliament. Foreign borrowing In 2014, before the PFM Regulations were in place, Parliament approved an increase in the ceiling for external debt from Sh1.2 trillion to Sh2.5 trillion through Sessional Paper No. 14. The 2020 BROP notes that the net domestic and foreign borrowing to finance the 2020/21 budget is estimated to hit more than Sh1 trillion. The paper estimates that domestic borrowing will increase from the earlier projected Sh494 billion to Sh600 billion with the foreign financing adjusted upwards from Sh347 billion to Sh402 billion. - Nation Media Group
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- The Senate was set to convene Wednesday to decide on how to handle an impeachment motion against Nairobi Governor Mike Sonko.
