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MELBOURNE — Serena Williams took her daughter to the zoo and Novak Djokovic walked barefoot in a park as the stars of tennis emerged from a fortnight of quarantine ahead of the coronavirus-delayed Australian Open Friday. More than 1 000 players, coaches and officials jetted into largely virus-free Australia this month for 14 days’ lockdown ahead of the opening Grand Slam of the year, with most allowed out for just five hours of daily supervised training. Big guns Williams, Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Naomi Osaka were among a select group that served their time in Adelaide rather than Melbourne ahead of an exhibition in the southern city on Friday. Seven-time Australian Open winner Williams, who is gunning for one more Slam title to equal Margaret Court’s record of 24 at next month’s tournament, spent her two weeks holed up with three-year-old daughter Olympia. “I’m so glad the quarantine is over because to be in a room with a three-year-old and being her best friend is definitely difficult, especially after training and working out and then it’s like, oh my gosh, it never ends,” said Williams. “But it was fun … honestly I wouldn’t trade anything for spending hours with her.” Asked what she did on her first day of freedom, Williams said they headed to the zoo. “We had a calendar in our room and every day we marked an ‘x’ on the days that went by and a big circle on the quarantine ending day, and we promised that we would take her to the zoo to see koalas and kangaroos,” said the American. She later played her first match of the season, with Olympia among a packed crowd at Memorial Drive, beating a sometimes-erratic world number three Osaka 6-2, 2-6 (10/7). “I haven’t seen people in — it feels like forever,” Osaka told the crowd. Australia’s world number one Ashleigh Barty was due to face second-ranked Simona Halep. Aggressive restrictions on incoming travel have helped keep the coronavirus at bay in Australia, making it one of the countries that is still able to have fans at sports events. With thousands of Australians stranded abroad, the players’ arrival prompted some disquiet among the public, especially when some complained about their quarantine and cases sprang up among the travelling party. Djokovic only played one of his two scheduled sets against Jannik Sinner due to a large blister on his right hand, winning 6-3 in his first competitive game of the year. “We didn’t play in front of this big a crowd in 12 months so this is something very special,” he said, having earlier opted for a quiet walk to celebrate finishing quarantine. “You know, just putting bare feet on the ground, just doing something that I didn’t have a chance to do so, just having the space I think that’s what we all kind of missed,” the 17-time Grand Slam winner said. Spanish great Nadal, who is aiming for a record-breaking 21st Slam title in Melbourne, moving him past the injured Roger Federer, plays third-ranked Dominic Thiem in his exhibition clash. He said it had been difficult to think about tennis for much of 2020 due to the coronavirus p
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.
KOLKATA, India - The vaccination drive in India has led to a spike in demand for glass vials - asilver lining for the depressed glass manufacturing sector in India. India launched the world's largest Covid-19 vaccination drives on Jan.16, with 30 million frontline and healthcare workers registered for the jab on day one.The government planstovaccinate300 million people by August. India […]
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By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent America’s economic situation has substantially deteriorated since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, and families across race and ethnicity feel the pain, according to a new report from the Brookings Institution, which notes that the coronavirus now stands as the third leading cause of death among African Americans. “If I told you on January 1 that a new virus that we did not even know about would, in August, be the third leading cause of death for Black Americans, our hair should have been set on fire and we would have […]
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MONTEGO BAY, St James - Prime Minister Andrew Holness says Jamaica's experience with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) underlines the need for greater utilisation of online services across the society.He said these are not only cost-effective and efficient, but are also the 'way of the future'.
By Jim Salter
The Associated Press
Bishop Floyd Williams knows that the coronavirus has proven especially lethal in the Black community, so his decision to reopen his End Times Christian Assembly in St. Louis comes with some trepidation.
Three groups representing Black St. Louis-area clergy are combining forces to distribute about 150,000 masks to churches that plan to open as early as next week.
The masks were provided by St. Louis city and county and by the state of Missouri at the request of Darryl Gray, a St. Louis activist and pastor.
“The Black church has been the surviving force for the Black community since slavery,” Gray said at the distribution site at a church in St. Louis County.
At Williams’ small church in the city, he plans many precautions beyond the free masks: Every other pew will remain empty.
