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Spokesperson on Health and Wellness, Dr Morais Guy, says the Opposition rejects any attempt by the Government to use expired AstraZeneca vaccines. It is calling for Portfolio Minister Dr Christopher Tufton not to pursue any plan to...
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.
Forty-three new COVID-19 cases were yesterday reported after 195 more persons were tested for the virus.
The article Forty-three new COVID-19 cases reported appeared first on Stabroek News.
Q: Are consular services currently being offered at the US Embassy during the ongoing novel coronavirus pandemic?
Fatalities from COVID-19 in Jamaica are climbing closer to 300, following the confirmation of two more deaths from the disease yesterday. \tThe number of deaths from the infectious disease is now 285. \tThe Ministry of Health and...
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The government has launched a Sh1.8 billion rural youth employment programme in Western Kenya through Agriculture ministry in partnership with the German Development Agency.
More than 10,000 youth in Bungoma, Kakamega, Siaya and Vihiga are expected to benefit from the initiative that seeks to boost youth participation in agriculture.
The two programmes include the rural youth employment in Western Kenya Initiative dubbed KilimoNiBiz and Youth Employment In Agri-food sector.
“The programmes will increase their employability through competency-based training, promotion of job placement services and strengthening the self-organisation of the rural youth,” said the Ministry’s Chief Administrative Secretary Anne Nyaga.
The demographic analysis shows more than two-thirds of Kenya’s population comprises the youth.
[SAnews.gov.za] South Africa has recorded over 20 000 new COVID-19 cases two days in a row, the latest statistics reveal.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday disclosed that 41 new cases of COVID-19 were confirmed, bringing the total number of known cases in Guyana to 6,510.
The article 41 new COVID-19 cases recorded appeared first on Stabroek News.
There have been concerns surrounding the new variant of COVID-19, discovered in South Africa and in the UK
[Monitor] The Ministry of Education has revealed that the decision to reopen schools for other classes will be determined by the findings of the inspection team that is currently in the field conducting inspections.
