Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is a public outcry on the changing face of Entebbe, to an image that is not befitting of a town that was up until recent years branded one of the cleanest towns in Uganda. Its location, as the host of Uganda’s sole international …
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Tokyo, Japan | XINHUA | Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga Thursday said that Tokyo will likely be placed under stronger anti-virus measures due to a resurgence of COVID-19 infections in the capital and increased pressure on healthcare facilities. The Japanese leader said the new, tougher measures will come into effect …
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Rome, Italy | XINHUA | Italy will be able to meet the targets planned for the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination campaign, Prime Minister Mario Draghi said on Thursday. “The availability of vaccines has not declined, the numbers (of daily jabs) are back again to the level we had before Easter, and …
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Cairo, Egypt | XINHUA | Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed on Thursday lauded the cooperation between Egypt and China on combating the COVID-19 pandemic as “fruitful and unprecedented.” “I would like to thank the state of China, its leadership, government and people, for their great solidarity with us in this …
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Serere, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Serere district is set to start the second phase of Indoor Residual Spraying in another intervention to eradicate malaria, the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Uganda. The spraying exercise is part of a five-year USAID-funded project in several districts of Eastern Uganda. …
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Geneva, Switzerland | THE INDEPENDENT | An additional USD 2 billion is required in 2021 to finance and secure up to a total of 1.8 billion donor-funded doses of COVID-19 vaccines, according to the COVAX facility, an initiative led by UNICEF, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the World Health Organization …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The commitment by the COVAX facility to provide Uganda with over three million doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in the first half of 2021 will be delayed, the World Health Organisation Uganda Country Representative Dr Tegnen Yonas Woldermariam said on Thursday. Dr Tegnen told …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda will not discontinue the use of the AstraZeneca jab in immunizing people against the Coronavirus (COVID-19) with the raising fears of blood clots and low platelet counts as side effects of the drug, experts have said. The experts said in a briefing on …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The European Medicines Agency has said that blood clots should be added as a possible adverse side effect of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. The recommendation was made after a review of 63 cases of reported blood clots that developed moments after receiving the vaccine …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Parliament has this afternoon honoured a 15-member medical team of Soroti Regional Referral hospital, for successfully conducting a surgery involving the separation of a dead from a live Siamese twin. The surgery took place in Soroti, six days after the baby was referred to …
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