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After going down with a significant knee injury back in October, Drake is back on his feet and enjoying a Turks & Caicos vacation with French Montanas in the middle of a pandemic.
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.
GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) - Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) accounted for seven of the top 10 causes of death before the novel coronavirus pandemic, the World Health Organization said yesterday, with heart disease killing more people than ever before.
By Samuetta Hill Drew With COVID-19 numbers continuing to spiral upward at an increasingly rapid and alarming rate across the country, which includes our state where two major cities are reporting no available ICU beds, how is one to determine if they are designated as “high risk?” With a disease where the medical and scientific […]
Pennsylvania governor Tom Wolf revealed today that he tested positive for coronavirus but will continue to work remotely. The governor... View Article
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[Centre 4s] Nouakchott -- In the Sahel, with Covid 19, 2020 will be a pivotal year in the fight against armed groups, some of which are supported from outside. Moreover, a year of Partnerships and quest for coherence in cooperative policies. Finally, a year of thinking on the responsibility to deliver, and thus to putting an end to conflicts. Despite Covid19 perverse effects and an increasing internationalisation. Covid 19, terrorism and humanitarian crises
Black America has historically been skeptical of the medical profession. Nowhere is this more evident than when it comes to... View Article
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FOW-chee, CAW-ma-la….dah-VIN-chee? America’s preeminent infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, and its incoming vice president, Kamala Harris, join the Renaissance master himself, Leonardo da Vinci, atop this year’s list of most mispronounced words, as compiled by the U.S. Captioning Company, which captions and subtitles real-time events on TV and in courtrooms. The list released Wednesday identifies […]
On Tuesday, Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms issued an executive order to invest $50 million in new bond funding to advance the goals of creating or preserving 20,000 affordable homes by 2026. The order also dedicates City-controlled public sources to the production and preservation of affordable housing. In 2019, Bottoms released her One Atlanta Housing Affordability Action Plan—a roadmap to increase […]
