Tag Archives: COVID-19

Lisbon, Portugal | Xinhua |  Portugal has completed the vaccination of 85 percent of its population against COVID-19, the country’s Director-General of Health Graca Freitas said on Saturday. Freitas told Lusa news agency that Portugal managed to lead global vaccination race by having “given an opportunity to everyone … to …

Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Probation officers in Kigezi are asking for increased funding to enable them to increase their efforts in curbing the surging teenage pregnancies in the region. According to records from the probation office, more than 7,000 underage girls have been impregnated in the six districts of the …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | A new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) points to a global failure to provide people with the mental health services they need during the COVID-19 pandemic. Published on Friday, the triennial WHO Mental Health Atlas shows data from 171 countries, and highlights that despite …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of nurses deployed at the KCCA primary school COVID-19 vaccination center in Kamwokya have shunned the exercise protesting non-payment of their allowances. The nurses are entitled to a daily allowance of Shillings 5000, which is meant to facilitate their movement. However, the nurses have …

Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The continued operation of bars and entertainment centres threaten the success so far registered in controlling the spread of Covid-19 across Luwero. Luwero District Health Officer Dr Innocent Nkonwa says that the district has for the third week recorded no new Covid-19 infections, a trend attributed …

UK travel red list cut to just seven countries Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The United Kingdom has removed Uganda from the list of countries that pose a threat of spreading COVID-19 through travel. This means that Ugandans and people travelling from Uganda will no longer need to spend 11 nights …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A new report on the impact of coronavirus in selected refugee settlements across the country shows an increase in the number of pregnancies among school-going girls and young women compared to Ugandan nationals. Titled “The situation impact of COVID-19 on school-going refugee girls and young women …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursday an initiative to vaccinate 40 percent of the population of every country against COVID-19 by the end of 2021 and 70 percent by mid-2022, by prioritizing vaccine delivery to low-income countries, particularly those in Africa. “Today, WHO is …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda has received 196,800 doses of the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine. This is the first batch of the nine million doses of the single-shot vaccine procured by the government. The vaccines were delivered aboard Brussels Airlines, which torched down at Entebbe International Airport on Thursday …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Nurses and Midwives Union-UNMU has threatened to mobilize nurses involved in the COVID-19 vaccination exercise to lay down their tools unless they are paid their allowances. While the nurses are entitled to a daily allowance of Shillings 5000, some of the nurses interviewed by …