Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Health Ministry has launched the long awaited COVID-19 mobile laboratories. The mobile labs were supposed to begin work some months back when they were donated but this was all in vain. They couldn’t be launched due to lack of the Polymerase Chain Reaction-PCR machine …
Read More »Bob Marley’s One Love reimagined to help children upset by COVID-19 crisis
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The iconic Bob Marley song One Love is to be re-released to support children whose lives have been upset by COVID-19. This is part of a fundraising initiative by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) to save children from the devastating effects of COVID-19. Originally recorded …
Read More »UGANDA: Coronavirus cases at 1,000, with 908 recoveries
🔺 23 new cases 🔺 Total confirmed cases 1000 🔹 Total Deaths: 00 🔸Total Recoveries: 908 🔹 Total of samples tested : 219,627 Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has today confirmed 23 new COVID-19 cases from the 3,316 samples tested bringing the total confirmed cases in the country to …
Read More »Returnees protest extra days in quarantine
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of Ugandans who have just returned into the country from overseas are protesting spending more than 14 days in institutional quarantine. A total of 804 Ugandans and legal residents have returned from Afghanistan, India, Southern Africa, Ireland and the United Kingdom among …
Read More »U.S. steps up COVID-19 vaccines, therapies development as caseload tops 3 mln
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) announced the establishment of a new clinical trials network on Wednesday aiming to step up vaccines and monoclonal antibodies testing, as the country’s confirmed COVID-19 cases surpassed 3 million. More than 3,035,000 COVID-19 cases have …
Read More »Increased trafficking of falsified medical products threatens public health: UNODC
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The increasing demand for medical products to contain COVID-19 has led to an expansion in the trafficking of substandard and falsified medical products, posing significant risks for public health, said a United Nations research published on Wednesday. The coronavirus has further highlighted the shortcomings in …
Read More »High COVID-19 cases not related to mass testing-WHO
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The high numbers of COVID-19 cases reported in the world are not as a result of mass testing, this is according to the World Health Organization-WHO. Data from the WHO shows that it took 12 weeks for the world to reach 400,000 cases of …
Read More »COVID-19 reversing decades of progress on poverty, healthcare, education: UN report
Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The COVID-19 pandemic is reversing decades of progress on poverty, healthcare and education, the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs said Tuesday in an annual report. The 15-year global effort to improve the lives of people around the world through the achievement of the …
Read More »Busia district leaders halt enforcement of facemasks use
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Busia district leaders have halted the enforcement of the mandatory wearing of face masks after failing to secure enough masks for the entire population of the area. The border district received 305,000 face masks for distribution as part of a government declaration calling for …
Read More »Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro tests positive for COVID-19
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | XINHUA | Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro announced on Tuesday that he has tested positive for the novel coronavirus. Bolsonaro came down with symptoms on Monday, including a fever of 38 degrees Celsius, cough and headache, leading to a test at the Brazilian Armed Forces Hospital. …
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