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Chairperson of the African Union (AU) President Cyril Ramaphosa said efforts to secure a COVID-19 vaccine for the continent were always collaborative
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.
Deputy President David Mabuza has defended under fire Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, saying that, amid a slew of criticism, she is simply doing her job.
During a hybrid question and answer session in the National Assembly on Thursday, Mabuza defended the work of the National Coronavirus Command Council (NCCC).
\"Therefore, the minister (Dlamini-Zuma) has been given the role, with other ministers, to work out regulations every time we make a movement between levels of the lockdown.
Mabuza also took a swipe at DA chief whip Natasha Mazzone, who called Dlamini-Zuma the \"unofficial prime minister of the country\".
Minister Dlamini-Zuma now has an incredible amount of power because she is in fact in charge of running this council as she oversees the Disaster Management Act.
President Cyril Ramaphosa will, as Chair of the African Union, participate in a virtual meeting of the AU Contact Group of the High-Level Committee on Libya later today Tuesday, 19 May 2020.
The meeting is at the invitation of the President of the Republic of The Congo and Chairman of the AU High-Level Committee on Libya, His Excellency Denis Sassou Nguesso.
The aim of the meeting is to take stock of progress made in relation to the resolutions of its inaugural meeting held in March 2020, in Oyo, The Republic of Congo.
The meeting will also assess progress in relation to the National Reconciliation Conference scheduled for July 2020 under the auspices of the African Union.
Other Heads of State and Government who will participate in the AU Contact Group meeting include President of Algeria H.E. Abdelmadjid Tebboune; President of Chad H.E. Idriss Déby Itno and President of Egypt H.E. Abdel Fattah el-Sisi.
Maputo — Mozambique's National Director of Public Health, Rosa Marlene, announced on Tuesday that a further 20 cases of the Covid-19 respiratory disease have been diagnosed, bringing the total number of known Covid-19 cases in the country to 453.
Speaking in Maputo at the Health Ministry's daily press conference on the Covid-19 situation, Marlene said that, since the start of the crisis, 15,190 people have been tested in Mozambique for the coronavirus that causes the disease, 610 of them in the previous 24 hours.
The distribution of the 453 positive cases by province is as follows: Cabo Delgado, 164; Nampula, 136; Maputo City, 71; Maputo Province, 47; Sofala, 13; Niassa, 5; Tete, 5; Inhambane, 4; Manica, 3; Gaza, 3; Zambezia, 2.
As for the claim made by one World Health Organisation (WHO) official, Maria van Kerkhove, that transmission of Covid-19 by asymptomatic people is \"very rare\", the Director of Surveys of the National Health Institute, Sergio Chicumbe, politely dismissed it.
He pointed out that the reference to symptoms is often subjective - while the temperature of a patient can be readily measured, this was not the case with other Covid-19 symptoms, for which doctors depended on descriptions given by the patients themselves.
An application to have the lockdown regulations declared invalid, and the NCCC declared inconsistent with the Constitution and Disaster Management Act, was dismissed in the Western Cape High Court in Cape Town on Friday.
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Nairobi — Africa will know its third non-permanent member of the United Nations Security Council for 2021-2022 after Thursday's run-off vote by the United Nations General Assembly to elect new temporary members.
This is after both Kenya and Djibouti failed to garner more than 128 votes of all the 193 member states to capture the seat in the first round election which was conducted last night.
Kenya, the African Union endorsed candidate, polled 113 votes against Djibouti's 78 votes, falling short of the threshold by 15 votes.
If Kenyan wins in Thursday evening's vote it will be the third time the country will be serving on the Council.
The Security Council has 10 non-permanent members in addition to the veto-wielding Big Five - Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States.
Assembly member Kevin McCarty’s Assembly constitutional Amendment 6 passed out of the California State Senate on June 24, 2020. The bill, known as the Free the Vote Act, will be placed on the ballot for voter approval in the 2020 November election to restore voting rights to former inmates who are free from incarceration but []
