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The Vulnerability Index decrease can be attributed to a moderate increase in vaccines, a 10 percent increase in vaccinated people (partial or complete) month over month, and a 37 percent decrease in active cases
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.
Somali Health Ministry on Wednesday confirmed 36 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of infections to 2,452.
Fawziya Abikar, Health Minister of Somalia, said 17 patients recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of people who had been discharged from hospitals to 506.
The minister said no patient succumbed to the disease as the total number of fatalities remained at 85.
Abikar said 30 of the latest cases are male while six others are female.
The Horn of African nation has instituted measures to contain the possible spread of COVID-19 including closing schools, banning large gatherings and suspending international and domestic passenger flights.
ADDIS ABABA, July 8 (Xinhua) -- Ethiopia registered 85 new COVID-19 cases in the past 24 hours, taking the nationwide tally to 276,683 as of Wednesday evening, the country's Ministry of Health said. The ministry said three new death and 93 more recoveries were reported, bringing the national counts to…
Gauteng recorded 62% of the new COVID-19 cases identified in South Africa on Wednesday. The NICD warns that the province’s daily case numbers are exceeding the previous waves.
WHILE it is understandable that government is under pressure to normalise many of the country’s sectors in the wake of the lockdown implemented to contain the potential spread of the virulent coronavirus (COVID-19), we feel it may be too early to open schools at the moment.
But it must be made clear that re-opening schools at a time when we are still recording new COVID-19 cases is not a wise and well-thought-out decision as it places our children at risk.
Parents and teachers have expressed fears over all these issues after government announced plans to re-open schools in about a month’s time and one can appreciate their fears.
A place like a school can easily become a hub of COVID-19 infections if just one person, be it a teacher, member of staff or pupil gets infected.
Many of our schools have very high teacher-student ratios, and this can cause a nightmare when there is need to implement social distancing.
Seventeen new COVID-19 cases, eight females and nine males, have been identified by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory. There were 1,705 tests conducted on Saturday, July 31. The number of persons in isolation is 122. Since March 2020, Barbados has recorded 4,407 confirmed cases of COVID-19 (2,141 females and 2,266 males). The death toll […]
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Dallas County on Tuesday reported the largest number of positive COVID-19 cases and deaths counted on a single day, health officials say. The Tuesday report included 257 positive cases, bringing the total to 10,719 in the county so far, Health officials also reported 16 deaths, pushing the new total coronavirus-related fatalities to 245
