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The Ministry of Health (MoH) yesterday confirmed that another person who was infected with COVID-19 has died, increasing the country’s death toll from the virus to 478.
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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.
President Museveni's message on the effects on Covid-19 was yesterday delivered by the Secretary General of the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), Ms Justine Kasule Lumumba, to the Inter-party Organisation for Dialogue (IPOD) meeting where Justice Forum (Jeema) took over its leadership from the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) party.
Appeal
Ms Lumumba also challenged Jeema to prioritise a meeting between the IPOD members and the Electoral Commission officials to discuss alternative ways the elections can be conducted based on the recommendations from scientists.
However, the FDC party president, Mr Patrick Amuriat Oboi, said it should not be scientists to determine the fate of the elections but stakeholders including the political parties.
The deputy president of the Democratic Party (DP), Mr Mukasa Mbidde, told the meeting that elections are not \"scientific expeditions\" for scientists to decide.
Follow Constitution
The president of Jeema, Mr Asuman Basalirwa, said elections are guided by the Constitution and other electoral laws and it should not be scientists to determine how, when and who should contest for elections.
Coronavirus has swiftly gained status as the world's No. 1 threat but in eastern DR Congo, one of Africa's most volatile regions, militia killings and ethnic violence are an older and -- for now -- far greater source of dread.
In the provinces of Ituri and North Kivu, \"civilians are being massacred,\" he said.
\"In South Kivu, Rwandan and Burundian armies are battling armed groups in the high plateaus of Minembwe, destroying everything in their wake,\" Mukwege said.
Since November, more than 400 civilians have been butchered in North Kivu province by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF), a mainly Muslim militia.
North Kivu and Ituri are also hosting an epidemic of Ebola, which has killed 2,279 people since August 2018.
TNM Super League defending champions Nyasa Big Bullets expatriate head coach Callisto Pasuwa says he is very impressed with how his players are responding to the training fitness programmes which they have been following since government through Football Association of Malawi (FAM) suspended the gathering of more than 100 people due to coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic.
During the function NBB Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Escort Chinula denied reports that the team is trying hard to block the transfer rumour of their wonder boy winger Peter Banda to go and play for South African National First Division (NFD) side TN Sporting which has shown interest to sign the player.
\"That issue is being handled by our management and disciplinary action will be taken on the player.
All our players had to know that they signed contracts with the team and if the player sign a contract he is under the team's mandate and he has to follow the rules and regulations so players can not do what he wants,\" explained Chinula.
On the issue of players denying a 50% pay cut during the coronavirus period Chinula said, \"At first the issue was being handled as an in-house issue but unfortunately it went on social media before it was finalised.
Nigerian health authorities said they were battling a suspected outbreak of yellow fever in two southern areas that local media said might have left dozens dead.
In recent weeks, water levels in Lake Victoria have reached unprecedented heights as a result of heavy rains in the East African region which started in August 2019.
From research my colleagues and I have done - examining the projected changes in weather in the Lake Victoria basin - we've found that these high water levels will be more frequent in the future because there'll be much more rainfall.
The aim of our study was to look at how the rivers that drain into the Lake Victoria basin will change as a result of increased greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
We show that, between 2036 and 2065, there will be 25% more annual rainfall in the eastern part of the lake Victoria catchment (Kenya and Tanzania side) area and between 5 and 10% in the western part of the catchment (Rwanda and Burundi side).
Lake Victoria is an open lake meaning whenever the lake level rises, spill-off should occur - this makes it hard to predict how much the lake will rise because the control of the spillover is through manmade dams in Jinja.
A surge in violence in the two months since April has seen nearly 200,000 people displaced from their homes in Ituri province, northeast Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), say Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams working in the region.
Currently, DRC is second only to Syria for the number of internally displaced people within its borders.Relief web
MSF is calling on national and international organisations to step up their assistance to the displaced people.
\"The violence is systematically targeting villages and health centres in order to prevent the people who fled from returning,\" says Benjamin Courlet, MSF's field coordinator.
MSF has been providing medical assistance to people in Ituri region since the conflict began.
As well as caring for the wounded, MSF teams provide treatment for common but deadly endemic diseases, including malaria, severe respiratory infections, diarrhoeal disease and measles, in hospitals, health centres and community health centres in areas where displaced people have settled around Nizi, Drodro and Angumu.
[Monitor] The Ministry of health has confirmed 701 new cases of Covid-19, the highest the country has ever registered since the pandemic outbreak in March this year.
[DW] BioNTech wants to continue the success of its COVID-19 vaccine and use mRNA technology to develop shots against malaria. But is production in Africa realistic?
This has resulted in over-reliance on village health workers (VHWs) who are community cadres that work on voluntary basis to assist the Health ministry.
For many years, she has walked hundreds of kilometres beyond her ward either educating the community on proper hygiene or visiting patients, mostly suffering from malaria.
Community Working Group on Health (CWGH) director Itai Rusike said in a low-resource country such as Zimbabwe, health professionals were a very scarce resource.
“So, to attain universal health coverage we are working with VHWs as they are playing key roles at community level to support the prevention, detection and contact tracing efforts in the COVID-19 crisis,” she said.
VHWs, said Rusike, continued to augment the work being done by the mainstream health sector, raising awareness, giving health advice, monitoring growth of children under five years, mobilising communities during outreach programmes and for immunisation.
Covid-Organics, a herbal tea presented by Madagascar’s President Andry Rajoelina as a remedy against the deadly Covid-19 pandemic, is made from artemisia, a green fern with an appearance similar to cannabis.
However, the drink is being promoted in some African countries as a cure.
Rajoelina is the promoter-in-chief of the mixture, marketed as Covid-Organics and administered in the form of a herbal infusion.
Asserting that the Madagascan brew has the potential to “change history,” Rajoelina has widely distributed it in his Indian Ocean island nation and donated supplies it to many parts of Africa.
Guinea-Bissau President Umaro Sissoco Embalo made a point of personally taking delivery of his country’s Covid-Organics order at the airport.
A suspected or confirmed case of COVID-19 should also receive a malaria test in areas where malaria is endemic.
So, what, and how do we now deal with two similar diseases COVID-19, caused by a virus, and Malaria, caused by a parasite principally in the interior of the country; and as reported of the case in Lethem, among those who travel to and from the interior and can spread COVID-19?
That person could help ensure a rapid response to patients with malaria prevention and management in areas affected by malaria and possibly COVID-19.
Additionally, there should be an estimated number of tests and treatment needed, Chloroquine and Primaquine for confirmed P. vivax malaria cases and of Coartem (Artemether-Lumefantrine) and Primaquine for treatment of P. falciparum.
The recommendation from WHO and CDC is that priority for a COVID-19 test be given to older adults and people of any age group who have serious underlying medical conditions, inter alia, persons on treatment for cancer; those with chronic lung conditions; severe asthma; diabetes, chronic kidney and liver disease etc.
Several days after President Irfaan Ali disclosed that he had invited all former presidents to a meeting on December 15th, Stabroek News still cannot confirm whether President David Granger will be present.
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On July 27, 1976, the very first person to contract the Ebola virus began to show symptoms. Ten days later he was dead. Over the course of the next few months, the first Ebola outbreaks in history occurred in Sudan and Zaire*, with a total of 602 reported cases and 431 deaths.
The first victim to contract Ebola was a cotton factory worker from Nzara, Sudan. Soon after this first man came down with symptoms, so did his co-worker.
Then the co-workers wife became sick. The outbreak quickly spread to the Sudanese town of Maridi, where there was a hospital.
Since no one in the medical field had ever seen this illness before, it took them awhile to realize that it was passed by close contact. By the time the outbreak had subsided in the Sudan, 284 people had become ill, 151 of whom had died.
This new illness was a killer, causing fatality in 53% of its victims. This strain of the virus is now called Ebola-Sudan.
On September 1, 1976, another, even more deadly, outbreak of Ebola struck - this time in Zaire. The first victim of this outbreak was a 44-year-old teacher who had just returned from a tour of northern Zaire.
After suffering from symptoms that seemed like malaria, this first victim went to the Yambuku Mission Hospital and received a shot of an anti-malarial drug. Unfortunately, at that time the hospital did not use disposable needles nor did they properly sterilize the ones they used.
Thus, the Ebola virus spread through used needles to many of the hospitals patients.
For four weeks, the outbreak continued to expand. However, the outbreak finally ended after the Yambuku Mission Hospital was closed down (11 of the 17 hospital staff having died) and the remaining Ebola victims were isolated.
In Zaire, the Ebola virus had been contracted by 318 people, 280 of whom died. This strain of the Ebola virus, now called Ebola-Zaire, killed 88% of its victims.
The Ebola-Zaire strain remains the most deadly of the Ebola viruses.
The Ebola virus is deadly, but since the initial symptoms can seem similar to many other
