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By Victor Omondi Bob Saget died suddenly earlier this week. Candace Owens' opinion about what led to Bob Saget's death has some interesting implications. We live in a time where we can exchange knowledge about anything at any time, and disinformation spreads like wildfire. During the pandemic, which currently has no signs of stopping, many […]
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.
As African countries ramp up their vaccine rollouts, millions of doses arrive in Kenya and Nigeria via the COVAX scheme.
The AVATT team had earlier on secured over 270 million doses of AstraZeneca, Pfizer, and Johnson & Johnson vaccines in the first allocation phase.
The country recently expanded the campaign to cover people over the age of 60, after initially vaccinating health workers
Candace Owens, one of the most self-hating African Americans the modern world has ever witnessed, is now the mother of a Black baby boy.
Candace Owens dug deep into her shallow Black white supremacist bag when she led the chorus of conservatives complaining that Juneteenth is now an official federal holiday in the United States of America.
Pfizer says an early peek at its vaccine data suggests the shots may be 90% effective at preventing COVID-19, indicating the company is on track later this month to file an emergency use application with U.S. regulators.
\t Monday's announcement doesn't mean a vaccine is imminent: This interim analysis, from an independent data monitoring board, looked at 94 infections recorded so far in a study that has enrolled nearly 44,000 people in the U.S. and five other countries.
\t Pfizer Inc. did not provide any more details about those cases, and cautioned the initial protection rate might change by the time the study ends. Even revealing such early data is highly unusual.
\t ``We're in a position potentially to be able to offer some hope,'' Dr. Bill Gruber, Pfizer's senior vice president of clinical development, told The Associated Press. ``We're very encouraged.''
\t Authorities have stressed it's unlikely any vaccine will arrive much before the end of the year, and limited initial supplies will be rationed.
\t The shots made by Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech are among 10 possible vaccine candidates in late-stage testing around the world _ four of them so far in huge studies in the U.S. Another U.S. company, Moderna Inc., also has said it hopes to be able to file an application with the Food and Drug Administration later this month.
\t Volunteers in the final-stage studies, and the researchers, don't know who received the real vaccine or a dummy shot. But a week after their second required dose, Pfizer's study began counting the number who developed COVID-19 symptoms and were confirmed to have the coronavirus.
\t Because the study hasn't ended, Gruber couldn't say how many in each group had infections. Doing the math, that would mean almost all the infections counted so far had to have occurred in people who got the dummy shots.
\t Pfizer doesn't plan to stop its study until it records 164 infections among all the volunteers, a number that the FDA has agreed is enough to tell how well the vaccine is working. The agency has made clear that any vaccine must be at least 50% effective.
\t No participant so far has become severely ill, Gruber said. Nor could he provide a breakdown of how many of the infections had occurred in older people, who are at highest risk from COVID-19.
Participants were tested only if they developed symptoms, leaving unanswered whether vaccinated people could get infected but show no symptoms and unknowingly spread the virus.
\t FDA has required that U.S. vaccine candidates be studied in at least 30,000 people. In addition to adequate numbers of older adults, those studies must also include other groups at high risk, including minorities and people with chronic health problems.
\t And it told companies they must track half their participants for side effects for at least two months, the time period when problems typically crop up. Pfizer expects to reach that milestone later this month, but said Monday no serious safety concerns have been reported.
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Algeria officially launches its COVID-19 vaccination campaign in the country with Sputnik V.
At a Paris summit seeking to boost financing in Africa amid the Covid-19 pandemic, French President Emmanuel Macron voices the summit's call for vaccine patents to be lifted to allow vaccinations to be manufactured on the continent.
South Africa announced Friday it would start vaccinating people under 50 years old as the continent's hardest-hit country buckles under a vicious third wave of Covid-19 infections driven by the Delta variant.
Ivory Coast launches Covax vaccination drive
The World Bank has approved that 12.5 million US dollars be granted to the Republic of Congo in order to acquire COVID-19 vaccines for its campaign.
Chemii put doubt on the efficacy levels of the current global vaccines claiming the production duration was not efficient enough to warrant a maximum protection.
Senegal has kicked off its COVID-19 vaccination campaign upon receiving 200,00 doses of China's Sinopharm.
India has shattered a global record of daily coronavirus cases, reporting a grim 314,835 new infections in the last 24 hours.
Vaccine apathy fueled by conspiracy theories and misinformation have affected the uptake of Covid inoculations in the southern African country
In a series of new lows, Candace Owens disingenuously suggested that AOC lied not only about being in the Capitol during the insurrection but also about being sexually assaulted.
Singer Noah Cyrus attempted to defend fellow artist Harry Styles but made a mess of it when she called Black political commentator Candace Owens a “nappy ass hoe.” It all started last month when Styles, an ex member of the boy band One Direction, became the first male to appear solo on the cover of Vogue. Owens had much to […]
The government intends to inoculate 40 million people, representing 67% of the country's population of 60 million, by the end of the year
By Tyler Greer UAB News The University of Alabama at Birmingham announced Friday that it will soon offer three appointment-only COVID-19 vaccination sites in Jefferson County with new locations at Parker High School and the Hoover Met joining the current downtown UAB Hospital-Highlands site as community vaccination locations. The Highlands drive-through location has been vaccinating UAB patients […]
Pope Francis says in his Christmas message that the discoveries of vaccines is bringing hope in times of \"darkness and incertainty\" and that they must be accessible to all
In one of her latest tweets about racism in America, conservative provocateur Candace Owens has expressed her disdain about race issues again. This time she’s […]
Authorities said the jab offered only 'limited protection' against mild to moderate illness caused by the virus strain dominant in the country
The death of Rush Limbaugh confirmed there are now three things that are certain in life: death, taxes and the newest addition to the holy trinity of guarantees, Candace Owens' anti-Black hatred.
Conservative pundit Candace Owens took to Twitter to blast Netflix and Uber Eats for introducing categories that support Black cinema and restaurants.
