Tag Archives: COVID-19

Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The residents of Elegu town council in Amuru district are appealing for a massive COVID-19 tests to be carried out following their interaction with truck drivers whose status is unknown.  Over 2000 truck drivers from the East African countries recently staged a strike, parking their …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The Immigrations Directorate in the Internal Affairs Ministry is stuck with 1504 passports of people who were quarantined during the Covid-19 lockdown. Jacob Siminyu, the Internal Affairs Ministry Spokesperson, says the passports were confiscated during lockdown since it was one of the ways to keep …

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | XINHUA |  The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa has reached 4,330,666 as of Saturday, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the African Union (AU), said the death toll from the pandemic …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Electoral Commission (EC) has acknowledged that it indeed failed to conduct adequate voter education ahead of the recent general election. But, the EC chairman Justice Simon Byabakama Mugenyi says that their program was partly affected by the restrictions in movement and on gatherings, …

Kampala, Uganda |  JULIUS BUSINGE  | Uganda will this month host the 3rd East African Congress of Accountants. The congress was supposed to be held last year in March but was suspended due to COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on gatherings.  “We have now assessed and it is possible to host the congress,” …

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 …

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 …

Washington, USA |  XINHUA |  Cooperation between the United States and China, the world’s two largest economies, would be vital for a faster global recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Kristalina Georgieva said on Thursday. “What we see today is the U.S. and …

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 …

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 …