Kampala , Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Private educational institutions are seeking 90 billion Shillings in financial help, to overcome the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on schools and facilitate the re-opening process. With budgets decimated by the economic downturn, many school owners are constrained financially, and can hardly pay for …
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The 49 new cases as follows: 🔺37 alerts ✳ 17 from Kampala ✳ 2 from Wakiso ✳14 from Namisindwa ✳1 from Kiryandongo ✳ 2 from Mbarara & Lamwo 🔺6 contacts to previously confirmed cases: ✳ 1 from Bushenyi ✳ 5 from Kampala 🔺 4 returnees: ✳ 3 from Saudi Arabia …
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Kigezi , Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders in border districts in the Kigezi region have questioned the failure by the Ministry of Health to deliver face masks to the area. They say that the area’s proximity to Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo increases the risk for the people …
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Nebbi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 13 people, including an NRM political aspirant for Nebbi Municipality, have been arrested and detained at Nebbi Central Police Station for organizing a political meeting in total disregard of COVID-19 control guidelines. Enriko Opio, an aspiring candidate for the Nebbi Municipality Parliamentary seat had flown …
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Brussels, Belgium | XINHUA | The European Union (EU) reached on Friday its first agreement to purchase a potential vaccine against COVID-19 once it is proven to be safe and effective, the European Commission said in a press release. The deal, made with the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, would secure the …
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Beijing, China | XINHUA | As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to rage across the world, Richard Horton, editor-in-chief of leading medical journal The Lancet, asked a provocative question with his newly-published book titled “The COVID-19 Catastrophe: What’s Gone Wrong and How to Stop It Happening Again.” Such a question reverberates …
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Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | As African countries continue to battle the unrelenting COVID-19 pandemic, they are making gains on the frontline against massive swarms of the desert locusts that have been threatening the region’s food security. Experts in different countries attribute the gains against the voracious migratory pests to …
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Geneva, Switzerland | XINHUA | A senior expert of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Thursday that it is currently in conversation with Russia to get additional information about the COVID-19 vaccine that Russia will start production soon. Dr. Bruce Aylward, senior adviser to WHO’s director-general, told a press conference …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The two consolidated applications seeking to quash a ban on open-air campaigns have been thrown out by the High Court in Kampala. The applications filed separately by Dr Emmanuel Diini and presidential aspirant Joseph Kabuleta, came after the Electoral Commission announced that persons campaigning …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda registered the highest number of new cases since foreign truck drivers were excluded from the country’s figures, with the Ministry of Health announcing 32 COVID-19 positives from tests done on August 13. The previous highest was 31 cases, last week on August …
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