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[Premium Times] Described as neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) by the global health body, they are viral, parasitic and bacterial diseases that mainly affect the world's poorest people.
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.
[New Times] Entrepreneurs operating in Rwanda currently face multiple challenges that range from lack of alternative capital, to skilled labour, and other business tools needed to thrive.
Like so many facets of life in so many places around the world, the agriculture and manufacturing sectors in Jamaica have the COVID-19 pandemic to thank for cutting short and, in fact, overturning the promising growth spurt with which they started 2020.The
The article Slipping into darkness: COVID-19 battered Jamaica’s manufacturing and agriculture sectors appeared first on Stabroek News.
[Cameroon Tribune] The population has been called to be vigilant as daily social interaction increases amidst new cases of the Covid-19 pandemic.
[Monitor] When the first case of coronavirus was detected in the Chinese city of Wuhan in 2019, it was too early to ell that this virus would bring the global economy to a standstill. A few months later, the coronavirus victims increased to millions of people.
Opinion - Awareness programmes are being conducted locally, nationally and internationally to unite people around the world for HIV/Aids awareness.
[New Times] The adverse effects of the Covid-19 pandemic are trickling down to major sectors of Rwanda's economy with tourism and hospitality, aviation, retail, and manufacturing bearing the brunt of the strict measures the government has put in place.
The likely extent of the recovery in the Caribbean and Latin American economies next year will be insufficient for the region to reach the economic activity levels seen in 2019, prior to the coronavirus pandemic, the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says in its ‘preliminary overview’ of economies of the region’ for 2020.
The article ECLAC hedging its bets on region’s short-term growth appeared first on Stabroek News.
[Premium Times] The president said the decisive margin of his victory constitutes an endorsement of the policies and programmes initiated by his government and put before the electorate.
[Premium Times] The official noted that \"people become blind early in life as from 20-30 years.\"
MILAN, Italy (AP) - Shareholders of Fiat Chrysler and PSA Peugeot voted yesterday to merge and create the world's fourth-largest auto company which, its architects hope, can more readily take on an enormous technological shift in the industry.
CHICAGO, United States (AP) - In a makeshift vaccination centre at a safety net Chicago hospital, a patient services aide ushers an older woman with a cane toward a curtained cubicle.'Here, have a seat right here,' Trenese Bland says helpfully, preparing the woman for a shot offering protection against the virus that has ravaged their black community. But the aide has doubts about getting her own inoculation.
Press Release - Green pandemic recovery can bring 2030 emissions close to levels needed for 2°C goal, with more needed for 1.5°C goal
[Premium Times] Nigeria is expected to receive an initial 16 million doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines through the Vaccines Global Assess Facility, COVAX, by the end of February.
WESTERN BUREAU: In what has been tagged an unduly harsh sentencing, a Jamaican man has been imprisoned for six months in Barbados for breaking quarantine; while influential tourists flouting the COVID-19 protocols, when caught are reportedly...
OREGON, United States (AP) - The first report cards of the school year are arriving with many more Fs than usual in a dismal sign of the struggles students are experiencing with distance learning.School districts from coast to coast have reported the number of students failing classes has risen by as many as two or three times - with English language learners and disabled and disadvantaged students suffering the most.
[New Times] Recent months have seen the market value of the Rwandan Franc against the dollar depreciate fast with the rates in a majority of forex bureaus nearing Rwf1000 for Dollar.
[East African] KCB's acquisition of two banks in Rwanda and Tanzania has pushed its total asset base to over Ksh1 trillion ($10 billion), creating a regional banking giant with a re-energised ambition to join the ranks of leading pan-African banks, currently dominated by Southern and West African banks.
If you are conservative, there are at least five reasons to feel concerned about Trump's legacy — and another five to be optimistic about it, writes Timothy J Lynch.
A GROUP of academics have published a paper exploring whether the government could make a COVID vaccine compulsory. They suggest that such a step may be necessary. They advise that COVID vaccination could be a condition of release from lockdown and related restrictions.
