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CARPHA ADVISES THAT HIGH CONCENTRATIONS OF SAHARAN DUST WILL AFFECT THE REGION OVER THE NEXT TWO DAYS.
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 (MoH) has said that it is possible that the baby who recently died while infected with COVID-19 may have contracted the virus at the West Demerara Regional Hospital (WDRH).
The article CMO says infant who died with COVID could have been infected at hospital appeared first on Stabroek News.
Four people have died from COVID-19, bringing the number of deaths from the disease in Jamaica to nine since the start of the year, and 311 since last March. \tThe Ministry of Health and Wellness reports that the four latest victims are...
STATE minister for health and wellness Juliet Cuthbert Flynn says Jamaica is faced with a ballooning threat in non-communicable diseases (NCDs), which has taken on new dimensions with the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic.
COVAX, the global project to deliver coronavirus vaccines to the world’s poorest people has been criticized for a decision to share costs among lower-income countries. It had previously been pledged that funding for these nations would be largely provided by donors and development aid.
