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The Wisconsin pharmacist arrested after being accused of trying to destroy hundreds of doses of the coronavirus vaccine has been... View Article
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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.
A LONDON headteacher has won a major prize at the Tes Schools Awards, one of...
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… a recent study many African Americans are wary about signing … 19 vaccine however, one African American man has decided to join … a major reason why African Americans lack trust in the … has exceeded its number of African American and Hispanic participants for …
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent Midshipman 1st Class Sydney Barber, a mechanical engineering major from Illinois, has been named brigade commander for the spring semester at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Barber, a track star with a stated desire to work as a Marine Corps ground officer, becomes the … Continued
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Pfizer to seek approval from FDA ‘within days’ after analysis finds COVID-19 vaccine 95% November 19, 2020 - Chicago Crusader By Erick Johnson Some 3,000 Blacks participated in Moderna’s clinical trials for the COVID-19 vaccine and several had severe cases of the diseases before taking the vaccine, according to company based […]
On May 19, COVID-19 stats: More than 1,523,780 Americans have been infected; and more than 91,000 Americans have died, out of a population of 330 million.
It is a story still unfolding as a public health menace married to economic downturns, and thanks to the American White House, it is politicized during this all-important election year.
Last week President Barack Obama, de facto Democratic Party head, belatedly re-entered national politics with two powerful talks, which were streamed to America’s GenZers – the Class of 2020 HBCUs and HS seniors, people who would be voting in November.
The Democrats must forego their aversion to deep-pocketed donors and PACs in order to hundreds of millions, some of which is targeted to the removal of Congressional Democrats like African American Nevadan Steven Horsford, and New Yorker.
Birthday greetings to Gemini natives: Carmelo Anthony; Wayne Brady; Roslyn Woods Cabbagestalk, RN; Ice Cube; Morgan Freeman; Ronnie Grant, actor; Ceelo Green; Dennis Haysbert; Maya Horsford; Naomi Horsford college coed; Karyn Jackson; Gladys Knight; Lenny Kravitz; Bishop TD Jakes; Kendrick Lamar; Aaron McGruder, writer/cartoonist, The Boondocks; Mamadou Niang, TV Journalist/Producer; Lionel Richie; Edgar Ridley, Semiotics Scholar, author of The Golden Apple: Changing the Structure of Civilization, Volume 3; Kai Sidberry; Sherry Smith, Goldman Sachs, VP; Entrepreneur Karen Soltau, Jamaican “Real Estate Lady” and Entertainment impresario; Octavia Spencer; Bob Tate, special events curator; Pierre Thiam, Teranga Restaurant and author of “The Fonio Cookbook: An Ancient Grain Rediscovered; Franklin Thomas, first African American Ford Foundation CEO; Donald Trump; Kanye West; Patti LaBelle and Sandra Williams, actress.
NMBZ Holdings Limited has closed four branches in the nine months to September 30, 2020 as the financial institution embraces digitisation. By Melody Chikono The group is also in the process of establishing an agency network throughout the country to facilitate physical touch points, in need, for potential and existing customers. In a trading update for the third quarter ended September 30 2020, company secretary Shumirai Pashapa said the bank closed the Eastgate, Chitungwiza, Kwekwe and Victoria Falls branches. “As a result of the digital transformation drive, the bank closed the Eastgate, Chitungwiza and Kwekwe branches in the nine months to September 30, 2020 and the Victoria Falls branch was closed subsequent to the review period. We are in the process of establishing an agency network throughout the country to facilitate physical touch points, in need, for potential and existing customers. We successfully moved our head office to the new home along Borrowdale Road in the quarter under review. In addition, the bank’s excellence branch, which was previously located at the Borrowdale Sam Levy’s Village, was moved to the new head office effective October 1, 2020,” she said. During the period, the group, in spite of the challenging operating environment and the adverse impact of COVID-19, recorded an inflation-adjusted 22% growth in total income for the period compared to the corresponding period in 2019. The bank’s regulatory capital as at September 30, 2020 of $2,8 billion was above the minimum required regulatory capital of $25 million and translated to a capital adequacy ratio of 36,70% (31 December 2019 — 39,49%) which was significantly above the prescribed regulatory minimum ratio of 12%. In the quarter under review, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe extended the compliance deadline to December 31, 2021 in respect of the new minimum capital threshold of the Zimbabwe dollar equivalent of US$30 million for banking institutions with a tier 1 status. Pashapa said the bank remained committed and focused on achieving the required minimum capital level for a tier 1 bank by the set deadline. Going forward, the group said it was not anticipating any further significant adverse impact on its performance on account of the COVID-19 pandemic. “However, we continue to closely monitor the situation due to the nature of the pandemic and the resurgence phenomenon which has been experienced elsewhere in the world. We are optimistic that the stability of the local currency markets will continue to prevail in order to have a predictable and conducive operating environment for businesses. The group’s banking subsidiary will continue the drive to enhance its digital offerings in order to improve the customer experience which will contribute to the bank’s strategic focus of broadening its market segment,”she said. “In pursuit of the revised capitalisation levels, the group is pursuing a number of value-preservation strategies to ensure the preservation and growth of the bank’s regulatory capital.”
By FRANK BAJAK AP Technology Writer BOSTON (AP) — IBM security researchers say they have detected a cyberespionage effort using targeted phishing emails to try to collect vital information on the World Health Organization's initiative for distributing COVID-19 vaccine to developing countries. The researchers said they could not be sure who was behind the campaign, which began in September, or if it was successful. But the precision targeting and careful efforts to leave no tracks bore 'the potential hallmarks of nation-state tradecraft,' they said in a blog post Thursday. The campaign's targets, in countries including Germany, Italy, South Korea and […]
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States was on the cusp of marking at least 100,000 deaths from the coronavirus, a once-unthinkable toll that now appears to be just the beginning of untold misery in the months ahead as Las Vegas casinos and Walt Disney World make plans to reopen, crowds of unmasked Americans swarm beaches and public health officials predict a resurgence by fall.
In the U.S., President Donald Trump several months ago likened the coronavirus to the flu and dismissed worries that it could lead to so many deaths.
According to figures tracked by Johns Hopkins University, the death rate per 100,000 people is lower in the U.S. than Italy, France and Spain but higher than Germany, China, South Korea, Singapore, Japan, New Zealand and Australia.
Countries with low death rates suppressed the virus “through lots of testing, contact tracing and policies to support isolation and quarantine of people at risk,” Michaud said.
SeaWorld and Walt Disney World plan to reopen to undisclosed limited numbers of tourists in Orlando, Florida, in June and July after months of being shuttered.
SY DNEY, Australia (AFP) - Australia has secured access to a 'promising' potential novel coronavirus vaccine, the prime minister announced yesterday, saying the country would manufacture it and offer free doses to the entire population.
People on six continents already are getting jabs in the arm as the race for a COVID-19 vaccine enters a defining summer, with even bigger studies poised to prove if any shot really works and maybe offer a reality check. Already British and Chinese researchers are chasing the coronavirus beyond their borders, testing potential vaccines in Brazil and the United Arab []
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For nearly four years, President Trump has inspired a cadre of liberal-leaning religious activists to organize, mobilize, protest and pray in opposition to his policies regarding refugees and asylum-seekers, Muslims, white supremacy and health care. As they helped plan the annual Women’s March, flooded airports in defiance of the travel ban and stared down demonstrators in Charlottesville, figures such as […]
The government’s top infectious disease expert said Tuesday he is cautiously optimistic that there will be a COVID-19 vaccine by the end of the year or early 2021, and warned that the next few weeks will be critical to tamping down coronavirus hot spots around the country.
Dr. Anthony Fauci and other top health officials also said they have not been asked to slow down testing for coronavirus, an issue that became controversial after President Donald Trump said last weekend that he had asked them to do just that because it was uncovering too many infections.
House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone of New Jersey said during Tuesday’s hearing that Trump’s testing comment at the rally “was an extremely reckless action, and unfortunately it continues the president’s pattern of ignoring the advice of his own public health experts.”
Trump, departing the White House for a visit to Arizona on Tuesday, played down those comments, saying under his administration the U.S. is doing more testing than any other country.
Fauci, who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, was joined by CDC director Dr. Robert Redfield, FDA chief Dr. Stephen Hahn and the head of the U.S. Public Health Service, Adm. Brett Giroir.
Medical Officer of Health for Westmoreland, Dr Marcia Graham, says the staging of illegal parties threatens to further increase the spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) in the parish.\tGraham was addressing the monthly meeting of the Westmoreland...
The Michigan medical institution is the only hospital system in the state selected as a Phase 3 trial site for a COVID-19 vaccine. “Henry Ford Health System is proud … Continued
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