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Seven more COVID-19 deaths have been recorded in Jamaica, increasing the tally to 1,884. The deceased are: * A 53-year-old man from Trelawny * An 84-year-old male from St Elizabeth * A 92-year-old female from St Elizabeth A 51-year-old...
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.
[Monitor] The Ministry of Health has reported 15 new Covid-19 infections as Uganda's confirmed cases on Saturday rose to 848.
Kenya’s Covid-19 infection rate continued to rise Monday as deaths also hit a new high, just a week after most of the containment measures to combat the disease were relaxed.
[WHO] Fifty-nine (59) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 2871 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to one thousand, one hundred and seventy-two (1172). To date, five hundred and ninety-five (595) patients have recovered and been discharged, including twenty (20) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is five hundred and seventy-four (574) and three (3) deaths.
Chief Medical Officer in the Ministry of Health and Wellness Dr Jacquiline Bisasor-McKenzie says the Ministry is working to address issues with COVID-19 testing.\tBisasor-McKenzie has indicated that there has been a drop in testing over the past few...
Thanksgiving holiday parties held in “different locations” yielded multiple violations of the latest COVID-19 health directive, Shelby County Health Department Officials said Monday. Health Department Medical Director Dr. Bruce Randolph did not specify those locations, other than the In Love Memphis Club at 7144 Winchester Rd., which has drawn particular attention after a video circulated […]
[New Times] The Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC) on Monday reported 30 new Covid-19 infections and 25 recoveries.
The Ministry of Health this afternoon confirmed the deaths of two senior citizens who tested positive for COVID-19, taking the total number of deaths from the pandemic in Guyana to 166.
The article Senior men, 70 and 85, die of COVID-19 appeared first on Stabroek News.
Ethiopia is one of East / Horn of Africa’s least impacted nations as compared to rate of COVID-19 case growth and infection of its neighbours.
A state of emergency lasting five-months has been imposed by the Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed led government. All land borders have since been shut as a virus control measure with a raft of restrictions and enforcement of physical distancing and mask wearing measures.
Elections planned for May this year were also postponed citing the effect of the pandemic. Ethiopia played an instrumental role in the deployment of virus supplies donated by Chinese businessman Ali Baba. This article will focus on major developments coming from the country.
May 19: 60 cases in two days
Total confirmed cases = 365 (new cases between May 17 – 19 = 60)
Total recoveries = 120 (new recoveries = 8)
Total deaths = 5
Active cases = 238
Ethiopia’s case count spiked on Monday by 35 new cases (a daily record) whiles 14 new cases were recorded today. Added to 11 cases recorded last Sunday, 60 cases have been recorded in the last three days. The tally now stands at 365.
Concerns had been raised by analysts over the spate of new case increases after it took just a week to go from 200 to go past the 300 mark as against a much lengthier period from 0 to 100 and 100 to 200.
The country, however, remains one of the least impacted in a region where neighbour Djibouti, Somalia and Sudan has crossed the 1000 mark. Kenya is past 900 confirmed cases as of today.
Major African stats: May 19 at 6:00 GMT:
Confirmed cases = 88,264
Number of deaths = 2,832
Recoveries = 33,898
Active cases = 51,534
Virginia saw more than 1,000 new coronavirus cases Tuesday, according to the state health department.
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - At a lecture to peers this month, John Nkengasong showed images that once dogged Africa, with a magazine cover declaring it 'The Hopeless Continent'. Then he quoted Ghana's first president, Kwame Nkrumah: 'It is clear that we must find an African solution to our problems, and that this can only be found in African unity.'
The Jamaica Association of Local Government Officers (JALGO) says it has sought the intervention of Dunstan Bryan, permanent secretary at the Ministry of Health & Wellness, in an effort to ensure that COVID-19 test results for public...
\tThe Ministry of Health and Wellness has reported that there are six new cases of COVID-19 in Jamaica, which has brought the total number of infections since March to 696. \tThere were no further recoveries, which means the percentage of...
Jamaica on Thursday recorded two more COVID-19 deaths, pushing the tally to 227.\tThe deceased are a 50-year-old female and a 17-year-old male from St Catherine. The latter was previously under investigation.\tOne more case was recorded as a...
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.
