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As Rwanda fights its first outbreak of Marbug disease, the country's health minister has announced that vaccine and therapeutic clinical trials will get underway in the coming weeks. The viral fever was detected in the country last month, and has already claimed several lives.
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.
Rather than fading away when we flipped the calendar — as we all hoped it would — the novel coronavirus has become more prevalent, with global cases surpassing 100 million and new strains appearing in at least 50 countries, including the United States. The variant strains are thought to be more transmissible, which is especially […]
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Dr Matshidiso Moeti, World Health Organisation (WHO), Regional Director for Africa, has paid tribute to African leaders for the progress they have made in their fight against COVID-19 pandemic.
\"We have seen African countries take very tough decisions to put in place some of the control measures
\"I am very pleased to have joined this celebration of Africa Day yesterday, and especially pleased to have been in the company of special envoys on COVID-19 in Africa,\" she said.
The Day is an opportunity to celebrate Africa's vitality and diversity, and to promote African unity and it is celebrated in various countries on the African continent, as well as around the world.
\"All countries in Africa now have a preparedness and response plan in place, compared with less than a dozen in the first few weeks of the pandemic.
\"And 51 have lab-testing capacity for COVID-19, compared with 40 countries 10 weeks ago; WHO continues to support Africa with other life-saving supplies,\" the director general said.
The third day of the Young Thug/YSL trial in Fulton County continued to be filled with drama. The future of the trial could be in jeopardy after a camera accidentally exposed jurors. During testimony by Detective Mark Delknap, a camera inadvertently captured jurors who were seated in the front row. Judge Ural Glanville stopped court … Continued
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Dear Editor,
Global policy makers failed to heed warnings that the threat of a pandemic is always present resulting in our current dilemma; the re-emergence of a Coronavirus was predicted after two prior Coronavirus outbreaks (SARS -2003, MERS - 2012) and, given the notorious mutation rate of the influenza virus, an influenza pandemic is always a possibility.
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Seasonal flooding is not unusual in the Rupununi but the COVID-19 pandemic has added a new layer of complication as cases continue to rise in Indigenous communities.
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