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Executive Director Jonathan Lupo says the active projects the Development Authority of Burke County is looking at are “really good.” Burke County is in the running as the top site for a least three projects. Two mediumsized companies are looking at the industrial park and one “quite large” company is looking at 250 acres on the east side of the […]
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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.
COLUMBIA COUNTY, Ga. (WJBF) — Tensions are rising in Augusta as neighboring Columbia County moves to form its own judicial circuit. Just days after the county’s Board of Commissioners sent its resolution to the Georgia State Legislature, Chief Superior Court Judge Carl Brown began forming the Committee to Preserve the Augusta Judiciary Circuit arguing Columbia, […]
Positive cases of the coronavirus continue to rise at alarming rates across the U.S., and Burke County is not exempt from the spikes; since Sunday, local health officials say the county has tallied another 35 confirmed positives for a total of 171, including seven deaths, since COVID-19 was first reported here. Gina Richardson, county nurse manager at B. Lamar Murray []
After two public hearings with little attendance from the community, the Burke County Board of Commissioners adopted its budget for fiscal year (FY) 2021. The $86,812,593 proposed budget passed with a vote of 4-1 with commissioner Evans Martin voting against its adoption. While Martin did not state the reasoning behind his vote during the called meeting on Sept. 9, he […]
Burke County native Leah (Smith) Savant, The Activist Artist, will present an Open- Air Forum on Allyship: Impacting Communities and Circles of Influence, at Pendleton King Park this Saturday, June 27, from 9-10:30 a.m. Savant says, “The forum aims to strengthen relationships between black people and white allies by creating a safe space for dialogue about race, expressing what white […]
THURSDAY, MARCH 4 Burke County Retired Educators Association will meet at 3 p.m. at Mt. Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church on West Seventh Street. Members are required to wear a mask. We're sorry! This content is only available to online subscribers. Please login below or Subscribe today!
Though the classes have been around for a while, there’s nothing like a new year to get folks motivated and off the couch (or on it in some cases). That’s even more important for senior citizens, and Lori Chance, fitness instructor at the Burke County Recreation Department, has just the thing for them. BCRD offers three different classes geared toward […]
For months, people have asked the questions: “Can 2020 get any worse?” “What level of Jumanji are we on?” As many folks across Burke County prepare to hoist their white flags in surrender, a hero steps into the Waynesboro arena, an old friend looking for a lively crowd, though this time he’s wearing a mask. That hero is none other […]
This week, the Georgia Department of Public Health showed a total of 374,589 confirmed COVID-19 cases for the entire state as of Tuesday afternoon, including 8,029 deaths and 31,893 hospitalizations. On Tuesday, 1,738 newly confirmed cases were reported as well as 30 deaths. Locally, according to the B. Lamar Murray Public Health Center, Burke County has reached a total of […]
MONTEGO BAY, St James - Montego Bay and Jamaica are mourning the passing of business mogul and philanthropist Anthony 'Tony' Hart early yesterday morning.Hart, who would have marked his 88th birthday on October 8 and his 60th wedding anniversary on August 26, died in hospital after a brief bout with pneumonia.
Eather Eugene Cheeks, 83, entered into rest Friday, August 14, 2020. He was born in Washington County, Georgia to the late Eather and Tina Cheeks and moved to Burke County in 1958. He retired from Yancey Brothers after 36 years of service. He was the owner operator of Cheeks Choice BBQ and Beaver Dam Farms. Eugene was a member of […]
The Cookhouse protest comes after the collapse of a meeting last week Tuesday to resolve differences between the two communities.
As the hunt for a new EMA director continues, Burke County commissioners have found themselves under scrutiny by the public. At last Tuesday’s regularly scheduled commission meeting, several citizens spoke out against the board’s decision to change the job description for the position, asking commissioners why they would lower their standards for such an important job and then accusing them […]
Two men with Burke County connections were arrested in Mitchell County, Texas last Wednesday after marijuana and cocaine worth approximately $1 million was found in their pickup. According to information published in the Colorado City Record newspaper and from Mitchell County Sheriff Patrick Toombs, District Attorney Investigator Billy Sides stopped a Ford F350 with California license plates which had been […]
Positive cases of the coronavirus continue to rise at an alarming rate in Burke County as well as throughout Georgia. The Burke County Health Department reported Tuesday that the county has had a total of 244 cases, an increase of 73 over last week. Seven people here have died from the virus and 37 have been hospitalized. Numbers at the […]
THURSDAY, NOV. 5 Burke County Retired Educators Association will meet 3 p.m. at Mt. Olive African Methodist Episcopal Church on West Seventh Street.Guest Speaker will be Crystal Preston. Members are requested to wear a mask. We're sorry! This content is only available to online subscribers. Please login below or Subscribe today!
Early voting has gotten off to a slow start in Burke County for the state primary, but election officials say that could be because citizens are opting to use absentee ballots rather than showing up at the polls.
Laverne Sello, who serves as the executive director of the Burke County Board of Elections Office, said Tuesday afternoon 77 county residents […]
[Nation] President Uhuru Kenyatta and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed on Wednesday arrived at Moyale in Marsabit County for the opening of the One Stop Border Post.
Burke County continues to be among the Georgia counties with the highest testing positivity rates at 21.3%. That means more than one in five tests for the COVID 19 virus in Burke County are positive. The number of local cases over the last two weeks has moved up to 58, giving the county a cumulative total of 1044 confirmed cases. […]
Sen. Reverend Raphael Warnock’s historic victory in Georgia this January was inspiring. It is the culmination of years of work done on the ground by thousands of activists, young and old, working to overcome systemic racism and the...
While Burke County was spared from the destruction Hurricane Sally wreaked across the Southeast, heavy rainfall did lead to flash flooding in some local areas. Amylia Lester, spokesperson for the Burke County Emergency Management Agency, said that just before the flash flood warning hit on Thursday, the National Weather Service reported the rain that was headed toward Burke County was […]
No one involved had been identified at press time, but a shooter caused a head-on collision when he fired into a car travelling east toward Walmart on the Waynesboro bypass. A little before 7 a. m. Tuesday, the Waynesboro Police Department and the Burke County Sheriff’s Office responded to a call about a crash and suspected shooting at Gary Way […]
