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To be able to vaccinate all Ugandans at the current cost, the country will have to spend at least sh2 trillion Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda will spend Sh56 billion to procure an initial 18 million COVID-19 vaccine doses that are expected in the country this month. According to …

  Cabinet approves reopening of all schools except nurseries Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Primary 6, Senior 3 and Senior 5 students will be the first allowed back when schools re-open. Cabinet has approved a recommendation for the reopening of schools to non-candidate learners. The schools were closed in …

  Mbale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Thousands of people descended on Busayi village in Bududa district to attend the burial of Umukuka II, Bob Saul Kipiro Mushikori, the former head of Inzu Ya Masaba. Mushikor, who succumbed to COVID-19 early this month, was laid to rest at his ancestral …

Scientists are working to understand what mutations of the virus mean for inoculation strategies COVID-19 SPECIAL FEATURE |  KATHERINE ELLEN FOLEY |  As researchers become more aware of strains of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes Covid-19, public health officials have one question: Will vaccines offer protection against them? At the moment, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kyambogo University has cancelled a plan to open to all students. They will instead maintain online learning following a directive from the Ministry of Education for decision on full re-opening to be considered three months from now. The university had asked students to report on …

  Berlin, Germany | XINHUA | The number of new COVID-19 infections in Germany remained below the previous week’s levels, with another 14,022 cases reported within one day, the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) said on Friday. So far, more than 2.19 million infections have been registered in Germany since the …

  Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | As the country launches its first COVID -19 cure trials, Civil Society Organizations (CSO’s) want government to comprehensively brief Ugandans on the progress in obtaining the Covid-19 vaccine besides the occasional remarks by government officials. In their statement, led by the Initiative for Social …

Brussels, Belgium | XINHUA |  The European Commission granted conditional marketing authorization for the COVID-19 vaccine developed by British company AstraZeneca and Oxford University on Friday, although the bloc seems unlikely to get the amount of doses as agreed for the moment. “Securing safe vaccines for Europeans is our utmost …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Novavax’s COVID-19 vaccine is able to offer protection against COVID-19 according to results of a phase three clinical trial released by the manufacturers of the vaccine. According to a statement released by Novavax, results from the U.K branch of the study show that the vaccine …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The COVID-19 cases and deaths are surging in Africa as new, more contagious variants of the virus spread to additional countries. Over 175, 000 new COVID-19 cases and more than 6,200 deaths were reported in Africa in the last week while infections rose by 50% …