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The Ministry of Health and Wellness has advised that there are new operating hours for the designated COVID-19 testing sites. The opening times for the Branford Taitt Polyclinic, Black Rock, St Michael, are weekdays from 8 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. On weekends and holidays, it will operate from 8 […]
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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.
Monrovia — National Christian Task Force of Liberia has praised President George Weah for the leadership he has provided in the fight against the deadly coronavirus but added that more need to be done in obtaining test kits to prevent the loss of lives.
National Christian Task Force of Liberia is a conglomeration of different churches that aims at supporting the wellbeing of Christians in the country.
Speaking to journalists in Monrovia, the National Director of the National Christian Task Force of Liberia David G. Benetoe said almost all of the reported COVID-19 deaths in Liberia are of people who died prior to their test results.
Such deaths, he said could be avoided if there were sufficient and effective test kits in the country.
Senegal has reportedly invented effective test kits that cost just US$1.00 each.
MINISTER of state in the Ministry of Health and Wellness Juliet Cuthbert-Flynn says Jamaicans accepting personal responsibility for protecting their own health is a major factor in overall wellness.Speaking at the opening of the Life Store Wellness Boutique on Constant Spring Road in St Andrew yesterday, the state minister said this is a necessary mindset that needs to be adopted, along with a change of lifestyles and habits.
Four cases of the reported highly contagious strain of COVID-19 that recently surfaced in the United Kingdom (UK) have been confirmed in Jamaica, but the authorities here are cautioning against panic. Health Minister Dr Christopher Tufton gave the...
Rwanda has on Wednesday, May 27 confirmed 7 new cases of Covid-19 and one recovery.
The latest update from 2,059 sample tests brings the tally of confirmed cases to 346, of whom 245 have been discharged from treatment centres after recovery.
In total, the country has so far conducted 62,502 sample tests of Covid-19 since outbreak in March.
According to the Ministry of Health, Covid-19 infections in Rwanda are being carried by people who upon arrival in the country undergo a mandatory test, especially truck drivers and their assistants.
Rwanda has eased a nationwide Covid-19 lockdown, allowing some businesses to resume operation.
Uganda has announced its biggest coronavirus cases spike in a day after 43 truck drivers tested positive for coronavirus disease (COVID-19) on Friday, May 15.
Of Uganda's confirmed 203 coronavirus cases, 143 are from truck drivers consisting of 57 Kenyans, 42 Ugandans, 31 Tanzanians, 7 Eritreans, 3 Burundians, one South Sudanese, one Rwandans and one unknown.
Hostility towards truck drivers is growing, with many Ugandans blaming them for importing the virus into the country and keeping then under lockdown that is meant to end in two days on May 18.
On Thursday, ministry of Health said there is no community transmission of the virus after only four positive cases of two police officers, a Ugandan student returnee from Tanzania and a truck driver tested positive from 14,061 samples.
Meanwhile, Rwanda has shut its borders to the cargo truck drivers, with the country encouraging relay delivery where cross-border drivers take the cargo up to the borders from where it is transferred to Rwandan cargo trucks and taken to destinations by Rwandan drivers.
[Nairobi News] Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacists and Dentists Union (KMPDU) has asked the ministry of health to pay all outstanding medical bills for the late Dr Stephen Mogusu, who succumbed to Covid-19 comlications on Monday.
The government has faulted politicians who gave out relief food to residents of Kikuyu Constituency in Kiambu County, even as the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) takes over investigations into the mysterious poisoning.
Central Regional Commissioner Wilfred Nyagwanga Wednesday said that authorities were not involved in the distribution of the relief supplies as required.
Mr Nyagwanga said investigations are ongoing and that the DCI and the Ministry of Health are running tests on some of the food given out.
Last month, the government banned uncoordinated direct delivery of food and non-food donations to vulnerable communities in a bid to enforce order and dignity in the distribution of relief supplies.
On Wednesday, Mr Nyagwanga said everybody who was involved in the distribution of the food will be investigated as authorities work to uncover the source of the contaminated food.
Caroline Murang'a, 31, is a lifestyle photographer and the owner Murash Media Production.
\"The most valuable lesson I have learnt is that strangers will support you more than friends,\" 31-year-old Caroline Murang' a sums up the business lessons she has learnt in the last five years.
\"Weddings are my favourite events to cover, no wedding is the same; I get to experience a different culture with each one so I never tire of them.
\"At the wedding, I noticed the fancy cameras the videography crew shuttled around.
I got talking with them and by the time the wedding reception was over, I was offered an internship,\" she recalls how her love affair with cameras began.
PARENTS are voicing their concern about what will happen to their children come June 1, when the work-from-home orders that were implemented to stem the spread of COVID-19 expire.
The issues raised by parents include the fact that in addition to schools being closed, nurseries or daycare centres, which would usually be open in the summer, are also closed as they fall under the remit of the Early Childhood Commission.
An essential worker said since the various lockdown measures, balancing work and caring for children who are at home has been “very hard”.
Meanwhile, Karlene Degrasse Deslandes, executive director at the Early Childhood Commission (ECC), said the organisation has had preliminary discussions about how it will operate post-COVID-19 and still continue to promote the 12 legal operating standards.
As such, no adjustments will be made to the operating standards, however, we will continue to promote these standards to ensure the health and safety of children and staff members, [and will] be guided by the Ministry of Health and Wellness [MOHW] and share risk management tips with ECIs,” Degrasse Deslandes said
As for what will obtain come June 1, the ECC executive director said it is a challenging question as the ECC is guided by the MOHW and the Ministry of Education stipulations.
[Monitor] By Bill Oketch
Nairobi — Even before a case at the Sports Disputes Tribunal (SDT) over Football Kenya Federation's (FKF) decision to end the season is heard and determined, the Kenya Premier League (KPL) management will convene a Governing Council meeting next week to draw out a plan for football resumption.
KPL went to the Tribunal after FKF's decision to call an end to the season and declare Gor Mahia champions over the COVID-19 pandemic which has halted football all over the world.
\"A KPL Governing Council meeting will be convened next week depending on the new measures that the Government will announce to curb the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic following the lapse of the 21-day nationwide curfew and cessation of movements in certain counties and local administrative areas on Saturday,\" KPL said in a statement on Thursday afternoon.
KPL passed down the responsibility of paying referees to clubs while they are yet to pay out the league winning prize money to Gor Mahia for their triumph last season.
On Wednesday, FKF boss Nick Mwendwa announced they will be waiting for government directives before announcing a roadmap for return to football in anticipation for next season.
Western Bureau: The Negril Health Centre in Westmoreland is now added to the list of over 30 adopted health centres within the Ministry of Health and Wellness, under its Adopt-A-Clinic programme, following an official ceremony held at that facility...
Zambia virus stats as of May 24, 2020 at 13:00 GMT
Confirmed cases = 920
Deaths = 7
Recoveries = 336
Active cases = 577
May 20: Nakonde records more new cases
\tNakonde, the border town with Tanzania continues to record more cases of the virus.
The one-stop border post in Nakonde was closed last week by President Lungu amid a spike in cases.
May 14: Case spike continues with Nakonde leading
\tZambia has more than doubled its COVID-19 figures from five days ago.
May 14 = 654 cases (208 new cases), 7 deaths, 124 recoveries
\t\tMay 13 = 446 cases (5 new cases), 7 deaths, 117 recoveries
\t\tMay 12 = 441 cases (174 new cases), 7 deaths, 117 recoveries
\t\tMay 11 = 267 cases (0 new cases), 7 deaths, 117 recoveries
\t\tMay 10 = 267 cases, 7 deaths, 117 recoveries
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\tThe town of Nakonde was declared a hot spot by the Ministry of Health on May 10 leading to the closure of the frontier with Tanzania.
On Saturday (May 9) 76 new cases were reported in Nakonde, the border town in question.
WESTERN BUREAU: All Jamaicans are now required to undergo a COVID-19 test in order to check into the Hedonism II hotel in Negril. Only tourists originating in four US states – Arizona, Texas, Florida, New York – are expected to present a COVID-19...
Mumbai, India - The government of India has proposed raising the smoking age from 18 to 21, banning the sale of loose cigarettes, and doing away with designated smoking areas in public places. The proposal also includes provisions for increasing the penalty for selling tobacco products to anyone under the legal smoking age from two years' imprisonment and a fine […]
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Fatalities from COVID-19 in Jamaica are climbing closer to 300, following the confirmation of two more deaths from the disease yesterday. \tThe number of deaths from the infectious disease is now 285. \tThe Ministry of Health and...
(Trinidad Guardian) As medical personnel at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital (POSGH) prepared to resume elective surgeries on Friday, they were delayed for a few hours more after a wild monkey was found in the operating theatre.
Forced to wait for some additional time as zoological officers were called in to capture the animal, hospital officials have denied social media claims that a snake was also found on the hospital compound around the same time.
Following an almost three-month interruption of the elective surgeries programme implemented by the Ministry of Health, Friday’s resumption was said to be the first scheduled to take place in the area of obgynaecology.
In a release on Saturday, the North West Regional Health Authority (NWRHA) said: “The Authority categorically denies that a snake was also found on the hospital’s compound and any information suggesting same is false, misleading and malicious.
One was captioned “Monkey and a Big Snake was found at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital yesterday,’” while the other was a video clip of a monkey atop a shelf within a sealed office.
The CovidSurg Collaborative has projected that, based on a 12-week period of peak disruption to hospital services due to COVID-19, it will take 11 months to clear the backlog of surgeries that have been cancelled.
\"However, each additional week of disruption will lead to the cancellation of extra 8,705 surgeries, significantly extending the period it will take to clear the backlog.\"
Professor Ademuyiwa, a Professor of Surgery at the University of Lagos and Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at Lagos University Teaching Hospital, who is also the Director of the National Institute of Health Research Global Surgery Unit in the College of Medicine of the University of Lagos, led this global research in Nigeria.
He said: \"The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a huge backlog of cancelled elective surgeries across Nigeria and it estimated that each additional week of cancelled surgery will result in a backlog of over 8,000 surgeries.
A Consultant Surgeon and Senior Lecturer at the NIHR Global Health Research Unit on Global Surgery at the University of Birmingham, Mr. Aneel Bhangu, said: \"During the COVID-19 pandemics elective surgeries have been cancelled to reduce the risk of patients being exposed to COVID-19 in hospital, and to support the wider hospital response, for example by converting operating theatres into intensive care units.
June 3: 2,216 cases, record recoveries
\t“This is the highest number of recoveries we have so far recorded since we announced the first discharge case on 1st April, 2020,” CAS Health Rashid Aman announced at today’s briefing.
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\tMajor topics covered below include:
\t\tMay 31: Cases approach 2,000; Laikipia records case
\t\tMay 30: 1,888 cases, Kericho records infection
\t\tMay 27: Record one-day increase
\t\tMay 26: Govt intensifies voluntary testing calls
\t\tMay 23: 1,192 cases, additional health workers to be hired
\t\tMay 21: record one-day increase, Wajir rolls out campaign
\t\tMay 20: cases pass 1,000 mark, foreigners deported
\t\tMay 16: 830 cases, TZ, Somali borders shut
\t\tMay 14: Cases hit 758, focus turns to Kenya-Tanzania border town
\t\tMay 12: 715 cases, border crossings becoming flash point
\t\tMay 11: Cases reach 700, mass prisoner release
\t\tMay 10: 649 cases, Raila worries about Magufuli
\t\tMay 8: May 8: Govt to foot quarantine bills, cases at 607
\t\tMay 7: 582 cases, lockdown in Eastleigh, Mombasa City
\t\tMay 5: KQ’s UK repatriation flight returns
\t\tMay 4: Cases hit 535, govt decries abuse of relaxed measures
\t\tMay 3: KQ repatriation flight, Nairobi fumigation
\t\tMay 2: Case count at 435, mass testing starts
\t\tMay 1: Case count hits 411, Uhuru vows transparency
May 31: 1,962 cases as Laikipia records infection
\tToday, 74 people have tested positive for the virus from 1,574 samples that were tested in the last 24 hours.
Total confirmed cases = 1,471 (new cases = 123)
Total recoveries = 408
Total deaths = 55
Active cases = 1,008
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 27, 2020
May 27: govt intensifies voluntary testing campaign
\tGovernment is intensify calls for people to submit themselves for voluntary testing as the steady rise of cases continue across the country.
Total confirmed cases = 1,348 (new cases = 5)
Total recoveries = 405
Total deaths = 52
Active cases = 891
\tFigures valid as of close of day May 26, 2020
May 23: 1,192 cases, additional health workers to be hired
\tThirty-one new cases were registered today taking the tally to 1,192; President Kenyatta disclosed in an address.
May 20: Cases pass 1,000 mark, foreigners deported
\tTotal confirmed cases = 1,029 (new cases = 66)
Total recoveries = 358
Total deaths = 50
Active cases = 555
\tThe case tally in Kenya has passed the 1,000 mark as of today and the milestone was achieved with the highest one-day record of new cases.
The Ministry of Education is reporting that 16 of the 17 schools selected to participate in the pilot of face-to-face teaching began classes today.\tIt says Yallahs High School has asked to begin tomorrow because of flooding on the compound.\tThe...
Kampala — The Ministry of Health says it is going to test all journalists who are covering Covid-19 related activities to ensure that they are safe and not transmitting the virus.
While receiving donations at the ministry headquarters yesterday, Dr Diana Atwine, the ministry's permanent secretary, said whereas they keep testing themselves every two weeks, journalists are not tested for the virus and yet they keep interacting with new people everyday.
In keeping with Ministry of Health and the World Health Organisation guidelines of preventing the disease, most media houses adopted measures to safeguard themselves from getting their staff infected.
Yesterday, the ministry and the national Covid-19 taskforce continued receiving donations from well wishers.
These included from Fountain Publishers that donated text books worth Shs354 million, Toyota Uganda, which donated a brand new Hino Truck valued at Shs225 million and 6.5 tonnes of posho for health workers and a cash donation of Shs20 million.
Nairobi — The traffic snarl-up by truck drivers at the Kenya-Uganda border was caused by rogue drivers who blocked the entry to the Malaba border point.
Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia Tuesday said the truck traffic snarl-up experienced at Bungoma-Malaba highway on the Kenya-Uganda border was caused by four truck drivers who incited others to block the entry to the border.
He ruled out claims that the long waiting period at the border post was a result of the COVID-19 screening procedures, which the truck drivers said were long.
He said that aggrieved drivers should desist from engaging in the truck business urging those crossing the border to acquire the clearance certificate 48 hours prior to leaving their point of origin.
A new regulation requires truck drivers to undergo COVID-19 tests and have a valid certificate to enable them cross the border.
Thirty-four new COVID-19 cases were recorded on Friday.
According to the Ministry of Health’s COVID-19 dashboard, the 34 new cases increased Guyana’s total number of positive confirmed cases to 6,076.
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The new cases come from 1,187 samples tested on Saturday at border points and the Uganda Virus Research Institute.
At least 19 of the new cases are Ugandan truck drivers who entered the country through the Elegu and Busia border points while four cases were from community infections.
According to the Ministry of Health, all the community cases are contacts of truck drivers who tested positive for the virus.
Uganda's new cases come at a time when the number of cases reported on the African continent is on the rise.
WHO Regional Director for Africa Matshidiso Moeti says despite the rise in the number of cases, there is still hope that the effect of the disease on the continent might not be as dire as earlier predicted.
FALMOUTH, Trelawny — Security Minister Dr Horace Chang says Prime Minister Andrew Holness is to give a timetable on Monday when other Jamaican ship workers are to be brought back home.
Speaking at a press conference at the Falmouth Cruise Ship Pier in Trelawny on Thursday, Dr Chang said a schedule is currently being worked on for the safe return of the crew members.
The prime minister will be able to announce the decision on all of them as we will be bringing the Jamaican on the ships home as early as possible,” Dr Chang assured.
And on Tuesday, as part of efforts by the Government to bring home Jamaican ship workers, 1,044 more of them arrived at the Falmouth Cruise Ship Pier on the Caribbean Cruise Line's Adventure of the Seas vessel.
On Thursday, Dr Chang argued that while the Government wants to bring home the workers, care must be taken not to overwhelm the island's health care system.
Ethiopia's confirmed Covid-19 cases on Sunday reached 582 after 88 more infections were confirmed, the Ethiopian Ministry of Health said in a statement.
This is so far the highest daily increase in the Horn of Africa country, which on Saturday reported 61 new confirmed Covid-19 cases.
The Ministry of Health said all 88 new Covid-19 cases are Ethiopian nationals – 51 males and 37 females – with their ages ranging between 8 to 75 years.
The Ethiopian Federal Ministry of Health also said that 152 patients who tested positive for Covid-19 have so far recovered from the virus.
Ethiopia, Africa's second most populous nation with about 107 million people, confirmed its first case of Covid-19 on March 13.
A health expert is reminding parents to place medication out of the reach of children and to ensure that substances such as bleach and kerosene oil are not left in drinks or water bottles at home. Director of family health in the Ministry of Health...
Mogadishu — Some 47 people tested positive for Covid-19 in Somalia, raising the tally of confirmed cases to over 2,000, the Ministry of Health said on Monday.
\"We have recorded the total number of positive cases reaching 2,023,\" Health Minister Fawzia Abikar Nur said during the daily media briefing in the capital Mogadishu.
Of the 47 people, 38 are men and nine are women.
Dr Nur added that 13 individuals recovered from the coronavirus while one person died over the past 24 hours.
Dr Nur urged the public to adhere to health regulations to prevent further spread of the virus.
