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[Agenzia Fides] Khartoum -- Doctors raise alarm over medicine shortages, lack of funding, insecurity, and an impending health disaster. Yesterday, the Sudanese Ministry of Health reported 138 new COVID-19 cases and five deaths. The new cases were mainly recorded in Khartoum, El Gezira, Sennar, North Darfur, and Northern State.
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.
Thirteen new COVID-19 cases were recorded yesterday after 239 more persons were tested for the virus and for the month of December there were 13 deaths.
The article Thirteen COVID deaths in December appeared first on Stabroek News.
In Mohammadia, 350 km west of Algiers, the newspaper Ennahar's correspondent, Djamel Ali Toubal, was given a summary trial on 17 June because of his sympathetic coverage of the \"Hirak\" anti-government street protests on Facebook and was sentenced to two years in prison for \"insulting state authority\" and \"Facebook posts liable to endanger national interest.\"
Merzoug Touati, a blogger and reporter for L'Avant-Garde Algérie, a news site that is blocked in Algeria, was arrested while covering a protest in support of prisoners of conscience on 12 June in Bejaia, 245 km east of Algiers.
Mustapha Bendjama, the editor of the regional French-language newspaper Le Provincial, appeared in court in Annaba, 600 km east of Algiers, on 17 June to face a possible three-year jail term on charges of \"inciting an unarmed gathering,\" \"opposing the holding of an election\" and \"using a gathering to oppose actions approved by state authorities.\"
Khaled Drareni, the editor of the Casbah Tribune news site and Algeria correspondent of both TV5 Monde and RSF, was questioned about the \"substance\" of the case against him by an investigating judge on 18 June in a \"hearing\" held inside Kolea prison in west Algiers, where he has been held since 29 March.
Arrested while covering a peaceful Hirak protest in Algiers, Drareni is facing up to ten years in prison on a charge of \"inciting an unarmed gathering\" and \"endangering national unity.\"
The Ministry of Health has announced 72 more people have tested positive for Covid-19 in the last 24 hours bringing the total number of confirmed cases in Kenya to 2,093.
Health CAS Dr Rashid Aman on Tuesday at Afya House said that in Nairobi, Kibera leads with the number of new cases with 16 cases.
The total number of samples tested so far is 82, 946,\" Dr Aman said.
Dr Aman also noted that 17 patients have been discharged from hospital bringing the total number of persons who have made a full recovery from the disease to 499.
Dr Aman applauded all healthcare workers across the country for their dedication in the work they do.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday confirmed the deaths of four more persons who were infected with COVID-19.
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ATLANTA (AP) — Joe Biden diverged Monday from activists pushing to “defund the police” in the United States, arguing that an overhaul of policing in America can be accomplished within existing law enforcement agencies.
A Biden presidential campaign aide said the Democrat “hears and shares the deep grief and frustration of those calling out for change” after George Floyd’s death by police in Minneapolis refocused the nation’s attention on institutional racism.
Floyd, a black man who was handcuffed, died after a white officer pressed his knee into Floyd’s neck for over eight minutes, as three other officers stood by.Video of the officers’ actions led to protests in cities across the world and pushed Biden and other high-profile Democrats to call for America finally to confront institutional racism.
The “defund the police” mantra has gained steam among some protesters and progressive activists since Floyd’s death, potentially complicating Biden’s ability to satisfy a splintered movement demanding differing levels of changes in policing practices.
(Photo by Kyle Rivas/Getty Images)
The Republican incumbent, who’s postured as a “law and order” figure and urged federal and state authorities to “dominate” protesters, has seized on the latest dynamics, casting “defund the police” as the official rallying cry for Biden and all Democrats.
The Ministry of Health says that the postponement of resuming inter-provincial movements and passenger taxi-moto services was triggered by five new Covid-19 cases confirmed in Rusizi district, Western Province on Sunday, May 31.
Explaining the change in an interview on Radio Rwanda on Monday, June 1, Minister of Health Dr Daniel Ngamije said that the change resulted from five new cases confirmed from residents of Rusizi district.
He said: \"We did an assessment and found that the recent new Covid-19 cases include five citizens from Rusizi district.
According to Ngamije, these five new Covid-19 cases include traders, truck-drivers and a motorcyclist who transported goods.
So far, according to the Ministry of Health, Rusizi is the only district where community cases were confirmed recently.
Premier Alan Winde urged people to continue sanitising, social distancing and wearing masks, even though there might be a glimmer of hope.
by PublicSource Reporters On Friday, Jan. 8, the state shared new information about who will be eligible for the vaccines and boasted its testing rate as above the national average.President-elect Joe Biden announcedhis administration will release available vaccine doses widely instead of storing doses to guarantee people get the second shot. And in Allegheny County, … Continued
The post As Biden announces a change in releasing vaccine doses, PA officials update the state’s vaccine rollout plan appeared first on New Pittsburgh Courier.
Kenya on Thursday reported 147 new Covid-19 cases and three more deaths, raising the tally of infections to 1,618 and the death toll to 58.
Health Cabinet Secretary Mutahi Kagwe said in a briefing that 13 coronavirus patients left hospitals in the past 24 hours, taking the number of recoveries in the country to 421.
The number of Covid-19 cases recorded Thursday is the highest since the first case was reported in Kenya on March 13.
During the same briefing, Kiambu Governor James Nyoro said that Tigoni Level Four Hospital, which was converted into a Covid-19 isolation centre, has the capacity to accommodate 45 patients.
He asked the Health minister to facilitate the hospital with testing kits to speed up mass testing.
Thirty-four new COVID-19 cases were recorded on Friday.
According to the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard, the 34 new cases increased Guyana’s total number of positive confirmed cases to 6,076.
The article 34 more COVID-19 cases recorded appeared first on Stabroek News.
[Shabelle] Somalia and the UN have lauded the role played by Somali women in peace, security and governance as the world celebrated the 20th anniversary of UN Security Council Resolution 1325.
[Nation] Kenya on Monday recorded 66 new Covid-19 cases from a sample of 1,833 tested within a day, which placed the positivity rate at 3.6 per cent, its lowest in weeks.
During a press briefing at Afya House in Nairobi, Health Chief Administrative Secretary Rashid Aman said that of the 22 new cases aged between 24 and 73 years-old, 17 were males while five were females.
Nairobi had 10 cases, Mombasa nine while Kwale, Nakuru and Taita Taveta had one case each.
Nairobi had the highest numbers at 10 distributed in Mathare (2), Kibra (2), Makadara, Embakasi West, Eastleigh, Ruaraka, Lang’ata and Westlands had one case each.
Kwale had one case in Lunga Lunga, Nakuru one and Taita Taveta with one from a quarantine facility.
Cumulatively there are 1,214 confirmed positive cases out of 59, 260 samples tested so far,” Dr Aman said.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – A member of Cricket West Indies’ medical advisory committee, Dr Akshai Mansingh, has backed the travel and COVID-19 quarantine protocols put in place for the upcoming Bangladesh tour and believes players will not be placed at any unnecessary risk while on international duty.
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Eleven more persons tested, no new COVID-19 cases
The number of confirmed coronavirus cases remains at 154 with 11 more persons being tested yesterday for the virus.
On Saturday, the Ministry of Public Health’s dashboard showed that one more person tested positive for the virus breaking a 5-day period without a new case.
THE government has said the re-opening of schools will be at an “appropriate time” and will be determined by the progress being made in fighting the deadly COVID-19 disease.
In his address during the launch of the Mashonaland East provincial chapter of the COVID-19 schools response plan held at Chinyika High School in Goromonzi early this week, Primary and Secondary Education minister Cain Mathema said the opening of schools could only be determined by the progress made in fighting COVID-19.
“Government desires to open schools when the time is appropriate.
“We are engaging stakeholders in the education sector for input on the re-opening of schools.
Meanwhile, government has encouraged schools to become innovative and produce their own PPE like masks and sanitisers.
Four new COVID-19 cases have been registered in Uganda.
According to Dr Henry Mwebesa, the director general of health services, the new case brings the total confirmed cases in Uganda to 264.
Dr Mwebesa said in a Wednesday statement that two cases are among truck drivers while the other two are contacts to previously confirmed truck drivers.
Dr Mwebesa said that two Ugandan male truck drivers who arrived from Tanzania via Mutukula are receiving treatment at Masaka Regional Referral Hospital.
Uganda currently has 80 admitted COVID-19 cases, according to Dr Mwebesa's statement.
