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A total of 218 new COVID-19 cases (92 males and 126 females) were recorded by the Best-dos Santos Public Health Laboratory on Saturday, October 2. The facility conducted 2,176 tests. The 218 new cases comprise 51 persons under the age of 18, and 167 who are 18 years old and older. There are currently 1,021 […]
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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.
[WHO] Twenty-two (22) new COVID-19 cases were identified out of 2644 samples tested today. This brings the cumulative number of confirmed cases to one thousand, one hundred and ninety-four (1194). To date, six hundred and ten (610) patients have recovered and been discharged, including fifteen (15) in the past 24 hours. The number of active cases is five hundred and eighty-one (581) and three (3) deaths.
Gov. JB Pritzker in isolation after possible COVID-19 exposure, office says By Mark Rivera, Leah Hope, Eric Horng and Alexis McAdams, ABC7 News Illinois officials announced a record 10,376 new COVID-19 cases and 49 additional deaths Friday. The death toll in Illinois has now crossed 10,000, with a total of 10,079 deaths, the Illinois Department […]
(CNN) — Fairbanks Bus 142. Probably you've read about it, seen its replica on a movie screen, or recognize one of its headier nicknames.
The Magic Bus.
The \"Into the Wild\" Bus.
Or just The Bus.
Until recently, the iconic green and white-roofed 1940s-era International Harvester sat parked in a woodsy clearing beside a riverbank, moldering in a remote patch of Alaskan outback like the result of a severely wrong turn.
There it sat for nearly 60 years -- the most unlikely retired public transportation vehicle in The Last Frontier state to attract a single stray passenger -- let alone find literary and movie fame, a residual stream of worldwide visitors, dedicated Facebook groups and bona fide monument status.
Hauled into the wilderness by a construction company in the early 1960s as a backcountry shelter during a short-lived road project along the area's Stampede Trail, the bus would soon be abandoned and forgotten on the far side of a boggy, river-soaked parcel of public wildland attracting mainly moose and local hunters just outside of Denali National Park, about 30 miles from the nearest real road of any sort.
The closest town, Healy, was 25 miles from the bus -- as the eagle flies. Presumably, this leafy clearing in the middle of nowhere would be Bus 142's final stop.
Adventurer Eddie Habeck visited the bus in 2012.
Eddie Habeck
The bus takes an unlikely turn
That's where the bus sat in the spring of 1992 when 24-year-old nomadic free-spirit Christopher McCandless stumbled upon it while heading solo into the Alaskan wilderness along the wet, rugged Stampede Trail, equipped with a sack of rice, a Remington rifle, a pile of books and a non-conformist's thirst for freedom and adventure.
Sheltering inside the bus, McCandless would live off the land, pen his thoughts, and amazingly survive alone in the wild for nearly four months before getting stranded by an impassable river, falling ill and dying, likely of starvation, inside the bus later that summer.
That's where the bus sat in 1996, when Jon Krakauer's bestselling chronicle \"Into the Wild\" would meticulously trace McCandless' two-year, wayward journey of self-discovery across the country to its tragic, untimely end.
That's where the bus sat in 2007 upon the release of a long-in-coming movie adaptation, captivating an even wider audience -- including at least two dedicated Facebook groups, now with thousands of members.
The Alaska Army National Guard removed Bus 142 from the Stampede Trail on June 18, 2020.
Sgt. Seth LaCount/Alaska National Guard/AP
That's where the bus would soon be receiving hundreds of annual pilgrims from all over the globe, plodding through miles of mucky trail, fording glacial rivers, and wading through waist-high beaver ponds to pay homage to the bus's legendized late inhabitant and follow his footsteps.
Visitors would routinely get into trouble out there -- stuck, cold, injured or worse. Last year, a hiker to the bus drowned whi
Data News Weekly Staff Edited Report Across the nation there is an uptick in new COVID-19 cases that is making cities and states to decide to take other actions to contain the pandemic. Recently, New [...]
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The Western Cape has seen a whopping 53.4% increase in new Covid-19 cases in the last week.
No novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) testing is being done this weekend as the National Reference Laboratory has been closed to facilitate electrical maintenance.
The article COVID-19 testing suspended for lab maintenance appeared first on Stabroek News.
Covid-19-related illnesses in the past 24-hour cycle have claimed the lives of 159 people, increasing the number of deaths to 12 423 nationally.
The Ministry of Health yesterday reported that 29 additional cases of COVID-19 have been recorded, taking the total number of cases recorded by Guyana to 6,105.
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