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An audit is under way into the roll-out of the AstraZeneca vaccine, which met with challenges in the first two days when some persons not slated to receive the jab were thrust to the front of the line to be inoculated. Permanent secretary in the...
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.
The Ministry of Health says that as of 6 pm today, one other person who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has died.
The article Three Region Four men die of COVID-19, death toll at 85 appeared first on Stabroek News.
[The Point] Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education on Monday disclosed that 309 students scored nine (9) credits in the 2020 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations (WASSCE), comprising 203 males and 106 females.
As of 24 October, South Africa has recorded a total of 714 246 confirmed cases of Covid-19 as well as 18 944 deaths related to the novel coronavirus.
Four cases of the reported highly contagious strain of COVID-19 that recently surfaced in the United Kingdom (UK) have been confirmed in Jamaica, but the authorities here are cautioning against panic. Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton gave the...
PHOTO: DONALD DE LA HAYE Justice Minister, Hon. Delroy Chuck (second left), peruses a book during the handover of play therapy tools for children by the Jamaica National (JN) Foundation to the Ministry’s Victims Services Division (VSD) on Friday (October 16). Others (from left) are: Chief Technical Director in the Ministry, Grace-Ann Stewart-McFarlane; General Manager, JN Foundation, Onyka Barrett-Scott; Director, […]
There has been 110 more Covid-19 deaths, which brings the total number of fatalities to 14 889.
Some $10 million will be allocated to procure 2,500 planting kits under a ‘Say Yes to Fresh Backyard Garden’ Programme that is geared at bolstering the country’s food security and emphasising the importance of eating local produce, noted Floyd...
As COVID-19 cases and deaths surge here, Eureka Medical Laboratories Inc (EML), is expected to commence novel coronavirus PCR testing by this weekend according to the Deputy Chief Medical Officer (DCMA) Dr Karen Gordon-Boyle.
The article Eureka in key boost to COVID-19 testing appeared first on Stabroek News.
The Ministry of Education says it will be using geographic information system (GIS) mapping, demographic and health data to drive the safe reopening of schools.\tThe initiative will be undertaken with the support of the Ministry of Health and...
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) - Trinidad and Tobago yesterday launched a new initiative aimed at luring tourist to the oil-rich two-island republic, with officials indicating there were airlines that have expressed interest in flying to the country in the post-coronavirus era.
[Nation] Health authorities have raised concerns following a rise in the number of new coronavirus cases in Mombasa and Turkana counties in the recent past.
Morocco is hoping to launch an ambitious vaccination campaign against the coronavirus by the end of the year. However, efforts have sparked suspicion and rumors in the country, hard-hit by the global pandemic.
Health Minister Khalid Ait Taleb said the move is to prevent the health system from been overwhelmed.
\"The fact that we chose to have a vaccination campaign for a short period of time means that we are trying to go back to normal and also to allow the recovery of certain sectors that are suffering. As well as to prevent the saturation of the health system so that it doesn't reach its total capacity\", Taleb said.
The North African nation is hoping to vaccinate 20 million adults within three months. It hopes to use vaccines from China's Sinopharm and a UK-sourced shot developed by AstraZeneca and Oxford University.
\"The Chinese vaccine should not be stigmatized, as Sinopharm is one of the best companies that exist worldwide. It is the seventh largest producer of vaccines internationally. The vaccine that we have chosen is an inactivated one, it is one of the most conventional and safest methods. It is like the flu vaccine, the polio vaccine and the diphtheria vaccine. Those are inactivated vaccines that have been effective for years and years\", he added.
Rumors that the vaccination would be mandatory in the country was denied by the ministry. The health minister said the vaccination in Morocco will depend on when the vaccines are certified for use, and delivered on schedule.
The death rate has been relatively low at around 1.7 percent of recorded cases.
But in the port city of Casablanca, the heart-beat of the Moroccan economy, under-staffed hospitals are feeling the pinch.
Over-worked medical staff, on the front lines of the pandemic since March, are showing signs of exhaustion. But the government is hoping that by mobilizing 12,750 medics from the public and private sectors, military doctors and the Moroccan Red Crescent, it will be able to hit its target for vaccinations.
The special coronavirus curfew imposed on Rae Town on October 23 in response to a spike in infections in the Kingston community could be lifted on Friday, Minister of Health and Wellness Christopher Tufton has said. The disclosure came during a...
WESTERN BUREAU: More than three years after it first opened its doors to house some departments of the problem-plagued Cornwall Regional Hospital (CRH), the West Jamaica Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (WJC) remains committed to supporting the...
