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The Ministry of Health and Wellness has advised that there are new operating hours for the designated COVID-19 testing sites. The opening times for the Branford Taitt Polyclinic, Black Rock, St Michael, are weekdays from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. On weekends and holidays, it will operate from 8 […]
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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 and Wellness is urging places of employment to abide by the COVID-19 Workplace Protocols, as employees return to work tomorrow.
Sharing the protocols via his Twitter page, Minister of Health and Wellness, Dr Christopher Tufton, encouraged employers to implement policies concerning physical distancing of at least six feet, and to make provisions for employees and visitors to clean their hands as necessary, as well as encourage them to cover coughs and sneezes.
Employers are also to ensure that work spaces are cleaned routinely; and to use technology to reduce the need for physical meetings and gatherings.
The work-from-home order issued by the government under the Disaster Risk Management Act expires today.
Prime Minister Andrew Holness is to update Jamaicans this evening on a set of new orders under the Act.
[Monitor] The Ministry of health has confirmed 701 new cases of Covid-19, the highest the country has ever registered since the pandemic outbreak in March this year.
May 27: Health Minister infected, cases pass 1,000 mark
\tLocal media portals have reported that Zambia’s health minister has tested positive for COVID-19.
Zambia virus stats as of May 24, 2020 at 13:00 GMT
Confirmed cases = 920
Deaths = 7
Recoveries = 336
Active cases = 577
May 20: Nakonde records more new cases
\tNakonde, the border town with Tanzania continues to record more cases of the virus.
The one-stop border post in Nakonde was closed last week by President Lungu amid a spike in cases.
May 14 = 654 cases (208 new cases), 7 deaths, 124 recoveries
\t\tMay 13 = 446 cases (5 new cases), 7 deaths, 117 recoveries
\t\tMay 12 = 441 cases (174 new cases), 7 deaths, 117 recoveries
\t\tMay 11 = 267 cases (0 new cases), 7 deaths, 117 recoveries
\t\tMay 10 = 267 cases, 7 deaths, 117 recoveries
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\tThe town of Nakonde was declared a hot spot by the Ministry of Health on May 10 leading to the closure of the frontier with Tanzania.
On Saturday (May 9) 76 new cases were reported in Nakonde, the border town in question.
The Sunday Gleaner has now learnt that nearly 24 hours before the first-time mother died of apparent heart failure, a senior official at Andrews Memorial Hospital had reached out to a senior official in the Ministry of Health & Wellness for help in resolving issues related to her transfer to a public healthcare facility.
Permanent secretary in the ministry, Dunstan Bryan, yesterday confirmed that “amid the crisis they were in”, the management of Andrews Memorial had telephoned him around 11:30 p.m. on April 23 to see if he “could facilitate their engagement with Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH)”.
“So, when I was contacted by Andrews Memorial, it was to facilitate the transfer of the patient to the Victoria Jubilee Hospital.
When contacted, Caroline Hay, attorney for Andrews Memorial, declined to discuss the issues raised in the telephone conversation between her client and the permanent secretary because of the ongoing investigations, but said the management of the hospital was willing to speak publicly on the incident “and has something very important to say”.
Green-Haughton disclosed that she was on the phone with her other daughter, Shanice, who was with Jodian at Andrews Memorial on April 23.
97 new COVID19 cases and five deaths have been reported in Somalia, the Ministry of Health and Social Care announced in its daily briefing.
Thirty five of the new cases were from Banadir region, 32 from the breakaway region of Somaliland, 22 from South West state and eight from Puntland state.
Sixty nine of the new infected persons are male while 28 are female.
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This brings the total Covid-19 cases in the country to 1,828 with 310 recoveries and 72 deaths.
The report is a setback to the optimism expressed in recent days that the numbers of the novel Coronavirus in the country would witness a significant drop.
Nairobi — Kenya's coronavirus case fatality rate declined to 3.4 per cent in May down from 5.1 per cent in April with 71 deaths having been reported as of Tuesday, June 2, out of 2,093 virus cases registered since March 13.
The Ministry of Health had reported twenty-two deaths as of May 2 with 435 cases having been registered, representing a 5.1 fatality rate in April.
On Tuesday, the health ministry reported two more deaths within 24 hours even as it confirmed seventy-two more cases out of 2,892 samples analyzed withing the same period.
With the number of confirmed cases rising 2,093, Aman urged Kenyans to continue observing the containment measures in order to combat the spread of the novel coronavirus.
He noted that 499 patients, including seventeen discharged within a 24-hour period leading to Tuesday after recovering from the virus with 1,594 other cases still under isolation for treatment.
[New Times] After weeks with refugee camps as one of the leading Covid-19 hotspots in the country, the Ministry of Health on Monday announced that Nsinda Prison located in Rwamagana district had also confirmed 13 new Covid-19 infections.
Mass testing for Covid-19 kicked off in China with all residents required to produce proof of residence, and valid visas for foreigners which entitled them to testing catered for by their monthly contribution towards the government medical scheme.
Public health and law enforcement agents did not entirely ace the manner in which foreigners of African descent were treated in the wake of the mass testing exercise in Guangzhou that kicked off late March, as it is believed some did not possess valid visas or work permits.
In comparison to China, Germany and South Korea have impeccably managed to contain the spread and infection cases after making a series of damning mistakes while combating similar epidemics that preceded the novel coronavirus
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From these epidemics, both Germany and South Korea saw the need for early testing and the isolation of the infected patients to avoid secondary infections.
Similarly, China, South Korea and Germany have a written infectious-disease-prevention legislation that allows medical practitioners to use available diagnostic kits during a public health emergency and warrantless access to geolocation data from suspected infected cases to expand contact tracing.
On Monday, health workers at Princess Diana Health Centre IV in Soroti District, went on strike protesting failure by the authorities there to provide them with personal protective equipment (PPE).
The Soroti Resident District Commissioner (RDC), Mr William Wilberforce Tukei, says delayed payment of allowances and lack of PPEs is not peculiar to Princess Diana Health Centre IV, but to all facilities in the district, if not the whole country.
It would now appear that Uganda's response to the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic is being hampered by lack of access to personal protective equipment such as gloves, medical masks, goggles, face shields, gowns and aprons, among others.
According to a statement that the Minister of Health, Dr Jane Ruth Aceng, issued in Parliament on April 7, the biggest percentage of the government's budget for the Covid-19 response is aimed at catering for logistics, especially PPEs and laboratory testing kits for six months' supply.
The president of the Uganda Nurses and Midwives Union, Mr Justus Cherop Kiplagat, says whereas government has been providing some PPEs, most of the health workers have been using their own money to procure PPEs to protect themselves from being infected and possibly infecting others.
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Before the Covid-19 pandemic crisis few Kenyans had heard of Dr Rashid Aman, the Chief Administrative Secretary in the Ministry of Health.
Then came the pandemic and his status changed from a shadow figure at Afya House to the face of Kenya’s coronavirus fight alongside his colleagues Dr Mercy Mwangangi and Health CS Mutahi Kagwe.
Unlike one of his colleagues whose frustration at such careless disregard for health safety by the public is often evident in the briefings, Dr Aman has remained stoic imploring Kenyans to do better.
Dr Aman, however stood his ground and said flights and passengers from China were still rightly allowed to enter the country, noting that it would be discriminatory not to allow in the Chinese because a virus could be imported from any part of the world.
Amid the search for a Covid-19 vaccine, Dr Aman has been championing a home-grown solution.
This was one of the many times that we have received communication from the government—for more than 60 days running, including weekends—whether from the ministry of Health or the cabinet secretary informing us of new Covid-19 cases, deaths and recoveries.
People would literally wait by their TVs or even radios to listen to government plans on combating the virus.
One of the things I remember keenly about living in the US was that in times of tornadoes, we would get warnings just before one was observed to be near our homes.
The first time I ever heard a tornado warning siren was during the wee hours of the morning and it was raining heavily, it was such a heavy downpour with thunderstorms but even through that noise, I heard the siren wailing.
Once I took a walk to the library, another time a group of friends and myself went shopping, because we were able to calculate that we had a few hours before a tornado actually hit our city, the sirens had become part of my life.
Rwanda on Friday, May 29 confirmed six new cases of Covid-19 and two recoveries.
In total, the country has so far conducted 65,608 sample tests for Covid-19 since outbreak in March.
According to the Ministry of Health, infections of this pandemic in Rwanda are being carried by people who upon arrival in the country undergo a mandatory test, especially truck drivers and their assistants.
So far Rwanda has eased a nationwide Covid-19 lockdown, allowing some businesses to resume operation.
Meanwhile, citizens are still urged to abide by Covid-19 precautionary measures such as regular washing of hands and self-distancing and wearing face masks when in public or multi-family compounds.
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[Monitor] A source at Mulago National Referral Hospital has revealed that the facility is facing a crisis of oxygen supply for patients in Intensive Care Unit (ICU).
Mr Julius Mukunda, the executive director of the Civil Society Budget Advocacy Group (CSBAG), yesterday said the first thing the President should tell Ugandans is how to revamp the private sector by clearing all domestic arrears worth Shs2.7 trillion.
On the Ministry of Health, which has been at the centre of response to the pandemic, the medics associations said President Museveni should address the issue of supplies to the health workers.
Dr Mukuzi Muhereza, the Uganda Medical Association general secretary, said the President must address the issues of supplies to the health facilities and salaries.
Dr Edward Kanyesigye, the president of Uganda Public Health specialists' Association, asked Mr Museveni to cease use of force to achieve behavioural change.
Gen Muntu's sentiments were echoed by Dr Sewanyana who said Mr Museveni must consider security ahead of elections.
The Ministry of Health says that the postponement of resuming inter-provincial movements and passenger taxi-moto services was triggered by five new Covid-19 cases confirmed in Rusizi district, Western Province on Sunday, May 31.
Explaining the change in an interview on Radio Rwanda on Monday, June 1, Minister of Health Dr Daniel Ngamije said that the change resulted from five new cases confirmed from residents of Rusizi district.
He said: \"We did an assessment and found that the recent new Covid-19 cases include five citizens from Rusizi district.
According to Ngamije, these five new Covid-19 cases include traders, truck-drivers and a motorcyclist who transported goods.
So far, according to the Ministry of Health, Rusizi is the only district where community cases were confirmed recently.
The ministry of health has now shifted its focus to the country's borders that have become high risk areas where coronavirus transmissions are taking place.
Dr Mwangangi said this is due to human interactions on both sides of the country's border and especially the porous borders.
Our porous borders are the ones that have become the latest high risk areas with the transmission of the disease,\" Dr Mwangangi said.
On Wednesday, the ministry of health referred back 25 Tanzanians at the Namanga and Isebania borders after testing positive for the novel coronavirus.
The Health CAS also intimated her ministry continued to witness a trend of emerging and increasing positive cases from the border counties.
The growing costs and shrinking revenues are now forcing hospitals to ask their employees to take a pay cut.
The issue has caused a push and pull between the health workers and their employers, with some moving to court through their unions.
PAY CUT
Aga Khan University Hospital has communicated to its employees about plans for a pay cut.
The hospital sent a memo to its staff informing them that due to the nature of the hospital's operations as a 24-hour essential services provider, all employees would be required to work 45 hours a week, up from 40 hours.
The Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has moved to court to stop the changes.
