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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.
WESTERN BUREAU: All Jamaicans are now required to undergo a COVID-19 test in order to check into the Hedonism II hotel in Negril. Only tourists originating in four US states – Arizona, Texas, Florida, New York – are expected to present a COVID-19...
Mellody L. Hobson is President of Ariel Investments, LLC. In this role, Hobson is responsible for firm wide management and strategic planning, and oversight of all operations outside of research and portfolio management. Previously, Hobson served as a Senior Vice President and Director of Marketing at Ariel Capital Management Inc., from 1994 to 2000 and served as its Vice President of Marketing from 1991 to 1994. Hobson has been the Chairman of Dreamworks Animation SKG Inc. since October 2012.
Hobson’s community service efforts are extensive. Hobson is a Trustee of Princeton University, and Chairman of After School Matters; Board Member of the Lucas Cultural Arts Museum.
[Monitor] The Ministry of health has confirmed 701 new cases of Covid-19, the highest the country has ever registered since the pandemic outbreak in March this year.
Twenty-six new COVID cases were recorded yesterday with fifteen of them originating from Region Ten, according to the Ministry of Health’s (MoH) dashboard.
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One year ago today, the world watched George Floyd's life slowly slipped away under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer. The outpouring of rage and empathy that followed shook the foundations of Corporate America in unprecedented ways, but experts say it's far too early to say whether the business world's pledged commitments to lasting social change will stand the […]
The Government Employees’ Retirement System board of trustees has tried since 1999 to motivate Virgin Islands senators to do something to save the retirement system, but, since then actions have only nibbled at solving a financial catastrophe.
(Jamaica Observer) The Barbados health ministry yesterday issued a public apology to Sandals Barbados, saying that three people detained by the police for alleged breaches of COVID-19 protocols had no connection with the resort chain.
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United Way of the Coastal Empire announces Cecilia Russo Turner, President and CEO of Cecilia Russo Marketing, as the 2021 Campaign Chair. In this one-year term, Russo Turner will lead the campaign fundraising efforts to reach a multi-million-dollar fundraising goal across four southeast Georgia counties: Bryan, Chatham, Effingham, and Liberty. The campaign will officially kick off on Thursday, September 9. … Continue reading \"United Way Names Cecilia Russo Turner As 2021 Campaign Chair & Announces Cabinet\"
Seventy- nine new COVID-19 cases were yesterday recorded and the majority were reported in Region Four.
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The Water and Power Authority Governing Board voted to authorize that an employment offer be made to a prospective Chief Financial Officer candidate and also approved the release of the fiscal year 2019 audited financial statement for the electric and water systems, Thursday.
Mumbai, India — The government of India has proposed raising the smoking age from 18 to 21, banning the sale of loose cigarettes, and doing away with designated smoking areas in public places. The proposal [...]
A third vaccine is being tested in Northern California but UC Davis Health officials are putting out a special call for specific participants. They want minority groups hit hardest by COVID-19 to participate, including the Latino...
JAMCCAR celebrated its 31st Anniversary and Jamaica’s 59th Year of Independence with a flag-raising ceremony, followed by a meet and greet reception to welcome Senator The Honorable Leslie Campbell, Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade. Hon. Alan Simon, Village of Spring Valley Mayor, and the Jamaican Civic and Cultural Association of Rockland, Inc. (JAMCCAR) celebrated […]
During a Oakland School Board meeting last month, the Board decided to delay a vote to approve The Reparations for Black Students Resolution until March 24, preventing the resolution from being approved during Black History Month and frustrating many who had organized and advocated for the bill’s passing. “There is not one Black family in OUSD that […] “There is not one Black family in OUSD that hasn’t experienced the pain of anti-Black racism in our schools,” reads a statement on reparationsforblackstudents.org, a website run by the Justice 4 Oakland Students Coalition in support of the bill. “Now is the time to look at the solutions from the Black community and invest in the remaining Black students.” The resolution seeks to address the harm Black students, families and teachers have faced in OUSD including: the closure of 16 schools with a significant population of Black students in the last 15 years, a disproportionately low graduation rate and disproportionately high suspension rate among Black students, and a loss of about 67% percent of OUSD’s Black student population since
What you need to know: From the new cases, 307 are Kenyans while 28 are foreigners, with 233 being male and 102 female. The youngest case is of a one- year-old infant while the oldest is 94. The Ministry of Health has announced 335 new Covid-19 infections in the last 24 hours from 5,424 samples that were tested within that period. The new infections have pushed the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 97,733 and the total number of tested samples to 1,075, 673. From the new cases, 307 are Kenyans while 28 are foreigners, with 233 being male and 102 female. The youngest case is of a one- year-old infant while the oldest is 94. At the same time, the death toll in the country from the pandemic now stands at 1,702 after eight fatalities were reported in the last 24 hours. Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe, on Thursday also reported 340 new recoveries, bringing the tally for national recoveries to 80,306. Latest recoveries From the latest recoveries, 261 are from the home-based care programme while 79 have been discharged from various hospitals across the country. Currently, there are 536 patients admitted in various health facilities countywide while 2,498 are under home-based care. There are 29 patients in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 18 of whom are on ventilatory support and nine on supplemental oxygen. Two patients are under observation. Another 10 patients are separately on supplementary oxygen and are in the general wards. In terms of distributions per county Nairobi continue to lead with 102 cases followed by Meru 46, Makueni 40, Nyeri 19, Kajiado 14, Embu 13, Mombasa 12, Kiambu 11, Nakuru 9, Migori 9, Nyandarua 9, Busia 9, Samburu 8, Kirinyaga 6, Machakos 5, Kitui 4, Turkana 4, Lakikipia 3, Uasin Gishu 3, Siaya 3, Kilifi 2, Marsabit 1, Narok 1, Murang’a 1 and Taita Taveta 1. -
The College of Agriculture, Science and Education Alumni Association is stepping up its efforts to have the president of the Portland-based College of Agriculture, Science and Education (CASE), Dr Derrick Deslandes, removed from the post, citing a...
June 26, 2020 (Milwaukee, Wis] Artistic Director Mark Clements and Executive Director Chad Bauman are thrilled to expand Milwaukee Repertory Theater’s leadership team with Tammy Belton-Davis as a loaned executive Chief Diversity Officer for a ten month appointment focusing on equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) strategies, engagement and communications. Ms. Belton-Davis, founder and principal []
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Fifty-one new cases of the novel coronavirus were yesterday recorded in seven of Guyana’s ten administrative regions as cases continue to rise.
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Four cases of the reported highly contagious strain of COVID-19 that recently surfaced in the United Kingdom (UK) have been confirmed in Jamaica, but the authorities here are cautioning against panic. Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton gave the...
Darrel Wheeler | Contributing Writer Photos by Darrel Wheeler The San Diego County Football Officials Association (SDCFOA) and Board of Directors member, Charlton Lynch, are trying to get more people of color involved in officiating. Charlton Lynch is the only Black board member of the organization, and he also serves on the recruiting committee for […]
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The executive director of the National Basketball Players Association (NBPA), Michele Roberts, has been appointed to the board of Cresco Labs.
Roberts joins eight other white men on the board of Cresco Labs, the owner of seven Sunnyside-branded dispensaries in Illinois, Chicago Tribune reports.
“I am grateful for the opportunity to serve on Cresco Labs’ Board and work alongside the senior leadership and management teams in their efforts to elevate the company to the next level of excellence,” Roberts said.
For years there have been concerns about the lack of diversity in the cannabis industry and Cresco Labs’ introduction of Roberts on its board is seen as a huge transformation in the industry.
“Ms. Roberts is an outstanding addition to our board,” Tom Manning, Cresco Labs’ Executive Chairman, and former Chairman and CEO of Dun & Bradstreet said, adding: “Drawing on her experience in leading one of the most important player organizations in the sports world and her expertise in law and litigation as a highly-accomplished trial attorney and educator, Michele will provide a unique perspective at a critical time of continued growth and expansion in the industry.”
THE Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) yesterday threatened to clamp down on social media users who “cyber-bully” government officials, which critics say is meant to muzzle critics of President Emmerson Mnangagwa on social media. By RICHARD MUPONDE /MOSES MATENGA Media experts also accused the government of trying to close media space. This came as Harare’s provincial development co-ordinator Tafadzwa Muguti claimed he was being targeted on social media, while Zanu PF last week also claimed that Mnangagwa was a victim of online cyber-bullying. “The ZRP warns individuals and groups from committing crimes through cyber-bullying of government officials who will be performing their constitutional and lawful obligations in terms of service delivery to Zimbabweans,” the police said in a terse statement. They further said the cyber-bullying of government officials was perpetrated by “certain groups of suspects who know their arrest is imminent”. Police tagged Information secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana and Muguti in their statement on Twitter. Muguti had earlier taken to Twitter to say that he had been bullied and was being threatened for doing his job. “No amount of smearing my name with false stories will intimidate me. I was appointed to clean up the corruption and land barons. Believe me, no amount of death threats, following me from work or dishing sewer drawn corruption allegations against me will work. We are coming for you. “I am sick and tired of being diplomatic to insults and now death threats and name-smearing. You start it and I respond. At the same time, I keep doing the very job. All the same, always take advice, thank you,” Muguti ranted. Muguti was said to have been offended by a letter circulating on social media claiming that he allegedly illegally received a piece of land in Chitungwiza in July 2019, without following procedure. He denied the allegations, saying all due processes were followed. Media experts and human rights organisations reacted saying that the police should not play referee on social media by seemingly protecting government officials. Voluntary Media Council of Zimbabwe executive director and Media Alliance of Zimbabwe vice-chairperson Loughty Dube said: “The police have no role to be involved in issues of freedom of expression. Every citizen has a right to engage in a civil manner a government official and it is not the role of the police to referee on what people would say or who they should talk to or whether anybody should not engage with anyone. “If anyone is aggrieved, they go to the police and the police will then act whenever someone has approached them, but it is not for them to referee to say this one is not tweeting properly and so on, that is not the role of the police,” he said. Dube said citizens had a right to hold government officials and Mnangagwa accountable on any platform including social media. Zimbabwe Union Journalists secretary-general Foster Dongozi said: “When I saw the tweet, I dismissed it because I thought somebody had hacked the police Twitter handle. We do not
\tThe North East Regional Health Authority (NERHA) has released a statement seeking to assure that it has the balance of a donation it received from the state-owned oil refinery Petrojam to buy an incubator.\tAn Integrity Commission report...
[Nation] The Ministry of Health has reported 559 new cases of Covid-19 in Kenya from 3,074 samples tested in the last 24 hours, raising the total confirmed cases in the country to 70,804.
Kimberley Crews Goode is Vice President and Communications and Corporate Affairs for Northwestern Mutual. In this role, Goode is responsible for leading the development and execution of the company’s internal and external communications strategy. She is also a member of the Northwestern Mutual Foundation Board. Goode, who joined Northwestern Mutual in March 2008, has more than 20 years of experience in corporate communications with several global companies in diverse industries. Goode has spent the majority of her career in the financial services industry.
Goode has earned numerous awards from industry organizations, including Women in Communication, Inc. and the International Association of Business Communicators. Goode is a member of the Board of Trustees for the Arthur W. Page Society and the Board of Directors for Action for Healthy Kids and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Milwaukee. She has also held membership in the International Public Relations Association.
The V.I. Port Authority Board unanimously voted to approve Executive Director Carlton Dowe to enter into a long-term lease agreement with major cargo shipping companies Tropical Shipping Company, LLC and Crowley Caribbean Services.
