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Over 5000 government officials will be among the first group of Jamaicans to be given COVID-19 vaccines. The first batch of vaccines is expected to arrive in the country this week, to kick-start phase one of the vaccination plan. At least...
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.
With a COVID-19 vaccine drawing closer, public health officials across the country are gearing up for the biggest vaccination effort in U.S. history — a monumental undertaking that must distribute hundreds of millions of doses, prioritize who’s first in line and ensure that people who get the initial shot return for the necessary second one. […]
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has determined that people who are 75 years of age and older, as... View Article
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CHICAGO, United States (AP) - In a makeshift vaccination centre at a safety net Chicago hospital, a patient services aide ushers an older woman with a cane toward a curtained cubicle.'Here, have a seat right here,' Trenese Bland says helpfully, preparing the woman for a shot offering protection against the virus that has ravaged their black community. But the aide has doubts about getting her own inoculation.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) - Provincial governments across China are placing orders for experimental, domestically made coronavirus vaccines, though health officials have yet to say how well they work or how they may reach the country's 1.4 billion people.
[This Day] The World Health Organisation (WHO) has advised Nigeria not to go to sleep on the fact that poliomyelitis has been finally eradicated.
[Nation] Health Cabinet secretary Mutahi Kagwe has fashioned himself as the straight-shooting minister regularly on your television screens warning you about Covid-19 that has ravaged the world and killed more than 1,200 Kenyans and 1.2 million worldwide.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Provincial governments across China are placing orders for experimental, domestically made coronavirus vaccines, though health officials have yet to say how well they work or how they may reach the country’s 1.4...
The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday confirmed the detection of 36 more cases of COVID-19 from the results of 556 tests that were done.
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By JILL LAWLESS Associated Press LONDON (AP) — Britain's newly established quarantine hotels received their first guests on Monday as the government tries to prevent new coronavirus variants from derailing its fast-moving vaccination drive. Passengers arriving at London's Heathrow Airport were escorted by security guards to buses that took them to nearby hotels. Some of the travelers said they had tried and failed to make it to Britain before Monday to avoid the quarantine. Zari Tadayon, who flew to Heathrow from Dubai and was taken to the Radisson Blu Edwardian hotel near the airport, said she had hoped she would […]
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While the CDC said there should be enough doses for as many as 20 million people to receive vaccination by the end of December, health officials expect a much larger supply in the coming months. Still, with a justified distrust of unproven vaccines, and a perceived limited participation by African Americans in clinical the trials that lead to the development of the COVID-19 vaccine, many question whether African Americans will accept vaccination.
BURKINA FASO has concluded a four-day mass polio immunization campaign, vaccinating 174 304 children under...
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Virginia could receive limited doses of a Food and Drug Administration-approved coronavirus vaccine from Pfizer as soon as mid-December, a top health official said Monday.
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States drafted plans Thursday for who will go to the front of the line when the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine become available later this month, as U.S. deaths from the outbreak eclipsed 3,100 in a single day, obliterating the record set last spring. With initial supplies of the vaccine certain to be limited, governors […]
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By DÁNICA COTO Associated Press SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A respiratory therapist who treated the first two COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Puerto Rico became the first person in the U.S. territory to be vaccinated against the virus on Tuesday. Yahaira Alicea had treated an Italian couple who visited the island aboard a cruise ship in March. The woman later died. Alicea said it was a fearful moment for her that wore her down physically and emotionally as she urged everyone to get vaccinated. 'This is what we want, for this pandemic to end,' Alicea said. 'Don't be afraid.' […]
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Health workers in northwest Democratic Republic of Congo have begun administering vaccinations after the country's 11th known outbreak of Ebola erupted last week, the authorities said on Monday.
Six people have died of the much-feared haemorrhagic virus since June 1, when the first cases came to light in Mbandaka, capital of Equateur province.
We have vaccinated as a priority medical personnel, people who have had direct contacts with confirmed cases and second-tier contacts,\" Health Minister Eteni Longondo told AFP from Mbandaka.
Eteni said the six deaths were out of 12 cases that had been recorded in Mbandaka as of Sunday.
Watchdogs hope to officially declare that outbreak over on June 25 - to do this, 42 days must elapse without any new cases.
By CANDICE CHOI and ANIRUDDHA GHOSAL Associated Press Health officials around the world are racing to vaccinate enough people to stop the spread of COVID-19, but what qualifies as 'enough' is still an open question. The goal is to get to 'herd immunity,' which is when enough people have immunity, either from vaccination or a past infection, to stop uncontrolled spread. Herd immunity doesn't make any one person immune, and outbreaks can still flare up. It means that a virus is no longer easily jumping from person to person, helping to protect those who are still vulnerable to catching it. […]
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The global death toll from COVID-19 topped 2 million Friday, crossing the threshold amid a vaccine rollout so immense but so uneven that in some countries there is real hope of vanquishing the outbreak, while in other, less-developed parts of the world, it seems a far-off dream. The numbing figure was reached just over a […]
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A high percentage of vaccine refusal among not just health care workers, but the general population, could be 'problematic,' Harvard epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch noted.
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR and BILL BARROW Associated Press WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) — A coronavirus action plan being unveiled by President-elect Joe Biden centers on a mass vaccination campaign and closer coordination among all levels of government. The Biden plan comes as a divided nation remains caught in the grip of the pandemic's most dangerous wave yet. So far, more than 380,000 Americans have died. Biden hopes his multidimensional strategy, expected to be detailed in a Thursday evening speech, will put the country on the path to recovery by the end of his first 100 days. 'It's going to be hard,' […]
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The vaccine has so far proved to be 100% effective in preventing death and hospitalisation due to Covid-19 - also in its South African trial.
