COVID-19 Updates

The Hague, Netherlands | AFP | A vaccine for the novel coronavirus could be ready in a year’s time under an “optimistic” scenario, based on trials that are underway, the European Medicines Agency said Thursday. The Amsterdam-based EU agency also played down fears expressed by the WHO that the virus might …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Gulu district COVID-19 taskforce is hunting for UGX 51 million shillings to help improve their quarantine center. Currently the district is using one hall belonging to Gulu school of clinical officers located in Laroo division Gulu municipality. The taskforce is now looking for the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The progress made by countries to achieve Sustainable Development Goals-SDGs is going to be interrupted by the effects of the COVID-19. The pandemic is causing a significant loss of life, disrupting livelihoods and threatening to undo much of the progress made over the years, according …

Kazo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr Samuel Tweheyo Kiroha, the District Health Officer-DHO of Kazo district has been interdicted for failing to respond to the coronavirus alerts from the community and frustrating the presidential directives on combating the pandemic. According to the letter authored by the District’s Chief Administrative Officer …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Cases of COVID-19 have been confirmed in a UN Protection of Civilians site in Juba the capital of South Sudan. The South Sudanese Government has confirmed two cases of COVID-19 have been identified inside a Protection of Civilians site in the capital, Juba. The …

Moscow, Russia | AFP |  Maria, a 24-year-old doctor working outside Moscow, expected to be paid extra if one of her patients tested positive for the coronavirus. Instead, her salary shrank. In a small town 200 kilometres (120 miles) from the capital, she visits patients at home and normally has around …

New York, United States | AFP |  Contact tracing is supposed to be one of the key weapons in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic, and for months authorities in the United States have touted the need for an “army” of tracers to allow the economy to reopen safely. But the …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The number of Uganda’s COVID-19 cases has risen to 139 after 13 truck drivers tested positive yesterday. The new cases are seven Ugandans, five Kenyans and one Eritrean who arrived from Tanzania, South Sudan and Kenya via Mutukula, Elegu and Malaba border posts. These are …

Godfrey Sserwanja, the Hoima District Education officer-DEO told Uganda Radio network that they approached the Rapid Assessment survey team to have the teachers tested since the teachers interact with many people more especially the children they teach saying it was crucial for the health ministry to engage teachers in the …

Geneva, Switzerland | AFP | The new coronavirus may never go away and populations around the world will have to learn to live with it, the World Health Organization warned Wednesday. As some countries around the world begin gradually easing lockdown restrictions imposed in a bid to stop the novel coronavirus …