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Ten new COVID-19 cases, five males and five females, were identified on Sunday, July 11, from the 590 tests conducted by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory. There are currently 64 people in isolation. Barbados has recorded 4,186 confirmed cases of COVID-19, (2,025 females and 2,161 males) since the pandemic began in March last year. […]
The post COVID-19 UPDATE: 10 new cases, 64 in isolation appeared first on Barbados Today.
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 DBE's plans for reopening schools has been dealt a major blow this week - and learners now face a two-and-a-half week delay before going back to class.
Be That Change is a grassroots community collective, in the London Borough of Waltham Forest,...
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Winds of political change appear to be blowing across St Andrew, with new faces from both of the country’s major parties expressing an interest in representing the rural constituency in Parliament. Businessman Oldwin Skeete has been selected by the Democratic Labour Party (DLP) to contest the seat, and Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Education […]
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The Barbados Association of Journalists and Media Workers (BARJAM) is questioning a decision by Starcom Network Inc to part ways with its president, Keith Goddard. Sources at the River Road, St Michael organisation revealed that during a recent meeting with top management, the senior journalist was informed that his services would no longer be required. Barbados […]
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Covid-19-related illnesses in the past 24-hour cycle have claimed the lives of 159 people, increasing the number of deaths to 12 423 nationally.
The second-highest daily case total over the span of the coronavirus pandemic was reported Friday in Maryland, according state health officials.
SILAS NKALA/LORRAINE MUROMO Teacher unions have urged the government to suspend the remaining examinations to save lives as cases of COVID-19 continue to skyrocket, necessitating the imposition of stringent lockdown measures at the weekend. Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga on Saturday suspended the reopening of schools, but allowed examination classes to go back to school to complete their examinations, as he introduced a raft of new measures that include closure of formal and informal business that are not essential service providers. Chiwenga also introduced a dusk to dawn curfew for the next 30 days to try to arrest the spiralling cases of COVID-19. Government announced that only pupils writing examinations would be at school today to complete their examinations, while the rest of the learners would open at a date yet to be announced. But the Progressive Teachers Union (PTUZ) and the Amalgamated Rural Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (Artuz) said government should consider completely closing the schools to avoid exposing pupils and teachers to the virus. PTUZ president Takavafira Zhou said the whole examination process should be suspended to save lives. “We urge the ministry to postpone the writing of exams in light of the quantum leap of COVID-19 cases in the country. “It is important to prioritise the health and safety of students, teachers and ancillary staff,” Zhou said yesterday. Earlier on, PTUZ secretary-general Raymond Majongwe through the union’s official Twitter account said teachers and learners should only go back to school if government made a commitment to pay invigilation allowances as well as test for COVID-19 before anyone enters the examination room. “We have only two conditions for invigilating the second phase of exams. “Zimsec must pay for the invigilation, candidates and teachers must get tested for COVID-19, all of them before exams start,” Majongwe said. In a statement the Artuz urged its members not to report for duty on Monday 4 January 2021 until COVID-19 is under control. “The sharp increase in COVID-19 deaths in the last few days is a signal to defer opening of schools and Zimsec public examinations. “Opening of schools for exam classes under the current situation will be equivalent to first degree murder by the responsible authorities,” the teacher union said in a statement. “We are witnessing high profile people succumbing to COVID-19, a majority of them were admitted to private elite hospitals with better healthcare equipment as compared to public hospitals. “This alone shows that teachers, economically disadvantaged students and low-class citizens are more trapped to death once infected.” Artuz added: “Regardless of the COVID-19, teachers are highly incapacitated to report for duty.”
A statement outlining the effects of the virus showed the Eastern Cape recorded 35 deaths out of the 74 new cases recorded.
Security firms across the country are once again under scrutiny for allegedly attempting to deny employees the full benefit of the new minimum wage order by slashing their hours indiscriminately. In an interview with Barbados TODAY, Minister of Labour and Social Partnership Relations Colin Jordan revealed that his ministry has been investigating reports that some […]
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LONDON, (Reuters) - The Premier League said yesterday it recorded 36 new COVID-19 cases last week even as the English top-flight season continues without pause despite a surge in infections across the country and numerous fixtures being postponed.
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Jamaica has recorded 17 new COVID-19 cases in the last 24 hours, bringing to 1,146 the total number of confirmed positives.\tAlso in the last 24 hours, recoveries moved to 770, as six additional persons were released from care, according to the...
Twenty-eight new COVID-19 cases were recorded yesterday after 329 persons were tested.
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Black and Hispanic children could face greater risks of the virus, according to the CDC. NEWS SERVICE OF FLORIDA A federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention review of more than 277,000 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in school age children shows adolescents had higher positivity rates than younger children and that race and underlying medical […]
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