Dr. Monica Musenero says the last thing being considered is the full operationalization of educational institutions 📌 UGANDA 🇺🇬 NEW BACK TO SCHOOL SCHEDULE ▶ P1, P2 & P3 – June 7 ▶ P6, S3 & S5 – June 7 📌 3-year plan to harmonize school calendar ✳ Terms 12 weeks ✳ Holidays …
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Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum district Covid-19 task force is hunting for 39.5 Million Shillings to boost uptake of the Covid-19 vaccine. This comes as few people have turned up to take the AstraZeneca vaccine jab, nearly two months after the Health Ministry launched countrywide Covid-19 vaccination. Kitgum district health …
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Its comprehensive income declined during the one year coronavirus pandemic crisis, executives say Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | The National Social Security Fund size grew by 16% from Shs12.66trillion in March 2020 to Shs14.62trillion in March 2021 amidst the coronavirus pandemic. The Fund’s Managing Director, Richard Byarugaba, and Chief …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The intensive care units at Mulago National Referral Hospital and Entebbe General Hospital are full of COVID-19 patients according to medics. This comes weeks after the country entered the second wave of COVID-19 cases which many scientists predicted would be worse compared to the first one …
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Uganda looking at J&J, Sinopharm vaccines to fill AstraZeneca Shortfalls Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda is considering using the single dose Johnson & Johnson and Sinopharm COVID-19 vaccines to address the existing global AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine shortage that will affect vaccine stocks in the country. According to officials …
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Ministry of Education tells semi-candidates that ‘you are not yet candidates’ 📌 UGANDA 🇺🇬 NEW BACK TO SCHOOL SCHEDULE ▶ P1, P2 & P3 – June 7 ▶ P6, S3 & S5 – June 7 📌 3-year plan to harmonize school calendar ✳ Terms 12 weeks ✳ Holidays 15-17 days ✳ No exams …
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Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | Former U.S. President Donald Trump has been sued by a civil rights group for calling COVID-19 the “China virus.” The complaint, filed in a federal court in New York by the Chinese Americans Civil Rights Coalition (CACRC), alleged that Trump’s use of that phrase and other similar …
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Tokyo 2020 enters operational delivery mode ➡ 75% of Village residents secured vaccination ➡ Limitation on participants entering Japan ➡ Games-time medical system review ➡ Medical personnel from abroad ➡ 54k+ athletes in 430+ safe major events since 9/2020 Tokyo, Japan | THE INDEPENDENT | With up to 75 per cent …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has started administering the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine to persons who were inoculated during the first round that started in March. Persons who are eligible for the second dose should have received their first dose between March 10 and 24. All persons …
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Why refusal to support waiver of WTO intellectual-property rules could prolong the pandemic COMMENT | JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ AND LORI WALLACH | The only way to end the COVID-19 pandemic is to immunise enough people worldwide. The slogan “no one is safe until we are all safe” captures the …
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