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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. […]
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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 tragic drowning of Jovonni Moise has rocked the foundations of a close-knit friends circle, whose members made a fateful stop at the Hot Pot near Brighton Beach, St Michael on Sunday, where the young man disappeared. Even more devastating for Cindy Moise is that every Mother’s Day celebration for the foreseeable future will be […]
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Gov. JB Pritzker in isolation after possible COVID-19 exposure, office says By Mark Rivera, Leah Hope, Eric Horng and Alexis McAdams, ABC7 News Illinois officials announced a record 10,376 new COVID-19 cases and 49 additional deaths Friday. The death toll in Illinois has now crossed 10,000, with a total of 10,079 deaths, the Illinois Department […]
Maryland reported another 771 new COVID-19 cases and nearly three dozen more hospitalizations as the total number of cases surpassed 147,000, data from the state's health department shows.
SOURCE: Jamaica Observer — Jamaica recorded 120 new COVID-19 cases and three deaths yesterday, bringing the total number of confirmed cases to 46,708, with 23,291 active, and the death toll to 806. The deaths were of two men from St Catherine – an 85-year-old and a 60-year-old; and a 69-year-old woman from Kingston and St […]
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[New Times] Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS) has allayed fears regarding the safety of inmates in different prisons in the country, following cases of Covid-19 that were reported in at least two prison facilities.
The Royal Barbados Police Force is seeking the public’s assistance to locate a missing girl. She is Ershell Sargeant, 16, of Collington Drive, Crane, St Philip, a student of the Deighton Griffith Secondary School. Ershell was last seen by her mother Narine Sargeant, 50, of the same address, on Monday, May 3, around 2:05 […]
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Spring is blooming, and with those longer days full of sunshine come stories inspired by the season. Now is the time for local students to hone those writing skills and submit to The True Citizen’s annual spring creative writing contest. Submissions for the contest are now being accepted, and we have three different writing prompts for young writers to choose […]
'The state of Indiana is on fire,' Gov. Holcomb says of virus' spread By Liz Nagy and Diane Pathieu, ABC7 News Indiana reported 5,853 new COVID-19 cases and 98 related deaths Wednesday. 'When you talk about counties being red, the state of Indiana is on fire,' Gov. Eric Holcomb said during his COVID-19 briefing Wednesday. […]
