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For a country to have a robust health delivery system, there are six pillars that were recommended by the World Health Organisation
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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.
[263Chat] Spokesperson for the Nelson Chamisa led MDC Alliance, Fadzayi Mahere says the fight between her party and the rival MDC-T faction is not about the name but the ruling Zanu PF party which is stalking her party.
Angry protestors not only barricaded Ladybrand roads but they allegedly went further torching a municipality trailor and water tankers.
Guinea Bissau was warned to prepare for a possible increase in coronavirus cases by the head of its response commission, as a team of Cuban health workers arrived to help the nation tackle the pandemic.
Gross domestic product in the region is projected to expand 3.1% next year, compared with a forecast of 5.2% for the world economy, according to the International Monetary Fund.
[Monitor] The world's population, years over, has been affected by a number of viral diseases such a Ebola and Influenza which, in some cases, have caused millions of deaths.
BY STEPHEN CHADENGA GWERU City Council has announced plans to turn its aerodrome into an airport, a move the city fathers say would boost business development in the Midlands capital. Speaking recently at a meeting with members of the Women’s Coalition Zimbabwe Chapter, mayor Josiah Makombe said council, through its strategy and business development unit, would engage potential partners in the multi-million-dollar venture. “We have plans to engage private partnerships in the upgrading of Gweru aerodrome into an airport,”Makombe said. “This is part of the many projects council has lined up as part of the city’s business growth.” Makombe said other projects that the local authority intended to undertake included quarry mining and the resuscitation of its beer entity, Go Beer. He said council had long-term plans to carry out business ventures to boost its revenue streams. Over the years, the local authority has been facing challenges in service delivery due to lack of financial resources. Gweru United Residents and Ratepayers Association Trust executive director David Chikore said council needed to speed up its income-generating projects to improve on key service delivery areas such as water and sanitation provision. “All these are noble ideas, but they should start running on the ground to improve council revenue streams so that as ratepayers we also benefit from improved service delivery,” he said.
Malaria cases in northern Mali have spiked, according to medical workers, claiming 23 lives in the often lawless desert region last week alone.
Mali's ministry of health said this week that 59 people have died of malaria in the north since the start of the year, almost double the number of deaths over the same period last year.
Already struggling to curb coronavirus, the poor Sahel country is also fighting a brutal jihadist insurgency active in the north and centre of the country.
Medical workers in the north registered 13,000 malaria cases between September 21 and 27, marking an 88 percent increase on the previous week.
Twenty-three people also died over that period, the health ministry said.
\"At the moment, the health system is really overwhelmed,\" said Cheick Ag Oufene, a health centre administrator in the northern town of Kidal, who called the situation \"very alarming\".
Mahamadou Sangare, a doctor in the northern town of Aguelhok, said malaria has been wreaking havoc since the arrival of the rainy season.
WHO warning
Treating severe cases is difficult in the remote north, he added, raising the likelihood of fatalities.
Malaria claims hundreds of thousands of lives across the African continent each year.
But the World Health Organisation warned in April that the coronavirus pandemic could disrupt campaigns against the mosquito-borne disease, leading to a spike in cases.
Rudy Lukamba, a Red Cross doctor in Mali, told AFP that Covid-19 \"has absorbed a lot of attention and redirected some of the funds, which has caused delays in prevention activities\".
\"Cleaning up wetlands, clearing brushwood, drying up puddles, distributing mosquito nets and raising public awareness requires resources,\" he said.
Swathes of Mali lie outside government control after a jihadist insurgency emerged in 2012 and triggered a deadly conflict which has since spread to the centre of the country.
Failure to end the long-running conflict contributed to anger towards president Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, whom young military officers toppled in a coup on August 18.
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[allAfrica] Johannesburg -- Twenty-one countries have experienced three consecutive years of zero indigenous cases of malaria since 2000. Ten countries where malaria once raged have been certified free of malaria by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
East London is one of four locations in South Africa that could be renamed this month - but there is already strong opposition within the Eastern Cape.
A strawberry-flavoured tablet for children living with HIV will be rolled out in African countries in 2021.
[The Conversation Africa] A wave of panic buying struck many countries when national states of disaster were announced in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Overnight, toilet paper, cleaning products and hand sanitisers became the most sought-after products on the market.
