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Over 5000 government officials will be among the first group of Jamaicans to be given COVID-19 vaccines. The first batch of vaccines is expected to arrive in the country this week, to kick-start phase one of the vaccination plan. At least...
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.
Joe Biden praised the scientists and medical workers \"who put this [the COVID-19 vaccine] together\", referring to them as \"amazing and incredible\".
[WHO] Geneva -- WHO and UNICEF call for immediate efforts to vaccinate all children as new data shows that, before the COVID-19 pandemic, vaccine coverage stalled at 85 per cent for nearly a decade, with 14 million unvaccinated infants yearly
A 90-year-old woman in the United Kingdom on Tuesday became the first person in the world to receive a coronavirus vaccination outside of clinical trials, marking a watershed moment in the fight against the crippling worldwide pandemic.
The first wave of coronavirus vaccines should reach the public this week, with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommending that all adults receive the vaccination in 2021. While the CDC said there should be enough doses for as many as 20 million people to receive vaccination by the end of December, health officials expect a much larger […]
Ramaphosa assured the public that government is doing its utmost to ensure that a vaccine, when available, will be widely distributed to all.
President Cyril Ramaphosa, along with Deputy President David Mabuza and Health Minister Zweli Mkhize, will receive South Africa's first consignment of Covid-19 vaccine doses.
By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER Associated Press BERLIN (AP) — Germany's disease control center on Tuesday reported 944 more COVID-19 deaths, fueling expectations that Chancellor Angela Merkel and the country's 16 state governors will extend the country's lockdown until the end of the month. Germany's latest lockdown took effect Dec. 16 after a partial shutdown starting in early November failed to reduce the number of daily new coronavirus infections. It was initially set to expire Jan. 10. Merkel's meeting with the governors on Tuesday will decide how long the lockdown should go on and to what extent schools will reopen. Another topic […]
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For a while now, R. Kelly has been doing everything under the sun to get himself sprung from prison, including citing the pandemic as a reason he should be allowed to go home and avoid contracting the deadly virus.
Press Release - Nearly 70 poor countries will only be able to vaccinate one in ten people against COVID-19 next year unless urgent action is taken by governments and the pharmaceutical industry to make sure enough doses are produced, a group of campaigning organisations warned today.
By The Associated Press BALTIMORE — Coronavirus infections have now surpassed 90 million confirmed cases around the world, as more countries braced for wider spread of more virulent strains of a disease that has now killed nearly 2 million worldwide. The number of infections worldwide has doubled in just 10 weeks, according to a tally […]
Coronavirus hospitalizations in both Los Angeles County and across the state have stabilized amid the pandemic’s worst surge yet — but officials don’t believe that will remain the case for long. There were 7,926 LA County residents being treated in hospitals for the virus on Monday, Jan. 11 — according to the state’s dashboard, which […]
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.
[This Day] The World Health Organisation (WHO) has advised Nigeria not to go to sleep on the fact that poliomyelitis has been finally eradicated.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has determined that people who are 75 years of age and older, as... View Article
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The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday, crossing the threshold amid a vaccine rollout so immense but so uneven that in some countries there is real hope of vanquishing the outbreak, while in other, less-developed parts of the world, it seems a far-off dream. The numbing figure was reached just over a […]
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BY RICHARD MUPONDE/HARRIET CHIKANDIWA GOVERNMENT will use the existing immunisation policies as guidelines to roll out the COVID-19 vaccination programme when it starts. This was revealed last week by the Health and Child Care ministry director of epidemiology and disease control, Portia Manangazira, when she appeared before the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health and Child Care to update on the COVID-19 situation. Manangazira told MPs at last week’s meeting that COVID-19 readiness assessments had already been done, and what was left was to deploy the vaccination strategy to be used once the programme kicked off. Last month, the government indicated that it was crafting a COVID-19 vaccination roll-out plan, but it appears it has opted to use existing strategies. As of yesterday morning, the country had recorded 33 273 cumulative COVID-19 positive cases, and 1 193 deaths, including three ministers, Sibusiso Moyo (Foreign Affairs), Joel Biggie Matiza (Transport) and Ellen Gwaradzimba (Manicaland Provincial Affairs). “I am happy to say as a country, we have a very robust immunisation programme for different diseases, and the ministry through the expanded programme on immunisation has conducted a national readiness assessment for the COVID-19 vaccine and we have also come up with a Zimbabwe COVID-19 national deployment and vaccination strategy,” Manangazira said. She said government had also been studying the vaccines that were already on the market and was using World Health Organisation guidelines to help select suitable vaccines for the country. Government is mobilising resources to buy vaccines and weekend reports suggested that it had raised US$100 million from the private sector, sufficient for doses to inoculate about 60% of the country’s population. Russia and China have reportedly approached the Zimbabwean government about supplying the vaccine, while the United Kingdom has offered to vaccinate 20% (about three million) of the country’s 15 million people when the Covax facility becomes ready.
Western Bureau: The Negril Health Centre in Westmoreland is now added to the list of over 30 adopted health centres within the Ministry of Health and Wellness, under its Adopt-A-Clinic programme, following an official ceremony held at that facility...
Health workers in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo have begun administering vaccinations after the country's 11th known outbreak of Ebola erupted last week, the authorities said on Monday.
Six people have died of the much-feared haemorrhagic virus since June 1, when the first cases came to light in Mbandaka, capital of Equateur province.
We have vaccinated as a priority medical personnel, people who have had direct contacts with confirmed cases and second-tier contacts,\" Health Minister Eteni Longondo told AFP from Mbandaka.
Eteni said the six deaths were out of 12 cases that had been recorded in Mbandaka as of Sunday.
Watchdogs hope to officially declare that outbreak over on June 25 - to do this, 42 days must elapse without any new cases.
Minister of Health and Wellness Dr Christopher Tufton says that, with Jamaica virtually assured of vaccines to meet initial COVID-19 immunisation demand later this month, the Government will turn focus on addressing negative responses to the jab.
(Partner Content) This past weekend saw tensions heighten as a possible Brexit outcome was on the table. When Monday rolled around, however, Boris Johnson was ready to walk away from everything and continue with a no-deal Brexit come the end of the year. The three main issues of fisheries, dispute resolution and a level playing field remain unresolved.
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Distribution hiccups and logistical challenges have slowed the initial coronavirus vaccine rollout in California, setting a pace that’s “not good enough,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said. The state is trying to execute the massive immunization campaign “with a sense of urgency that is required of this moment and the urgency that people […]
MADRID, Spain (AP) - As the two mortuary workers pushed a stretcher with a bagged corpse out of the room, the elderly man in the adjacent bed briefly awakened from his dementia. 'Is he dead?' he muttered, extending his arm, trying to touch his roommate for the last time.
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.
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By The Associated Press VATICAN CITY — Pope Francis has resumed greeting the public in St. Peter's Square, seven weeks after he interrupted the Sunday noon ritual to discourage crowds from gathering during the COVID-19 pandemic. Smiling broadly, Francis appeared at an Apostolic Palace window overlooking the square and greeted a couple of hundred people standing a safe distance apart in the cobblestone square. Most held umbrellas on a drizzly, windy day. 'In the square again!' Francis said. He appeared on the first Sunday since the Rome area regained Italy's 'yellow zone' designation, which carries the least restrictions on movement. […]
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By GRANT SCHULTE and AMY FORLITI Associated Press OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — U.S. hospitals slammed with COVID-19 patients are trying to lure nurses and doctors out of retirement, recruiting students and new graduates who have yet to earn their licenses and offering eye-popping salaries in a desperate bid to ease staffing shortages. With the virus surging from coast to coast, the number of patients in the hospital with the virus has more than doubled over the past month to a record high of nearly 100,000, pushing medical centers and health care workers to the breaking point. 'Nurses are under immense […]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is asking states to speed delivery of COVID-19 vaccines to people 65 and older and to others at high risk by no longer holding back the second dose of the two-dose shots, officials said Tuesday. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said that “the administration in the states […]
As of Friday, roughly 960,000 Illinois residence have received at least one shot of the COVID-19 Vaccine— and about 270,000 of them have received both shots. But the state’s pace has ranked in the bottom third of the country for residents vaccinated when adjusted for population sizes. Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s administration has pointed to different […]
