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Washington, US | Xinhua | U.S. President Donald Trump and his Democratic rival Joe Biden held competing town halls at the same time on Thursday night via different TV networks, attacking each other over issues ranging from the pandemic response, the QAnon conspiracy theory to the Supreme Court expanding. Answering questions …

Studies have shown that our immunity to coronaviruses is alarmingly short-lived and quick to fade COMMENT | WILLIAM A. HASELTINE | During a September 15 ABC News “town hall”-style event, U.S. President Donald Trump told host George Stephanopoulos that without a vaccine, COVID-19 would still “go away.” Over time, Trump …

WASHINGTON,USA | XINHUA |   U.S. President Donald Trump claimed on Sunday that he is now “immune” from the coronavirus, though medical research has suggested it is possible to be reinfected with the virus. “It seems like I’m immune, so I can go way out of a basement,” Trump said in …

Gulu, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Santo Omona, a Ugandan UK based Businessman has evicted his own family in Gulu shortly after he returned home during the corona virus global pandemic. Omona reportedly left home a wife and five children in 2000 at Obiya West in Gulu West Division on …

Bugweri, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Six more inmates in Rubanda government prison in Rubanda district have tested positive for Covid19. This comes days after another inmate at the same facility tested positive for the coronavirus disease. The Rubanda District Health Officer, Dr. Abdon Birungi, says that after registering the …

Kalangala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dozens of Anglican churches on Ssese Islands in Kalangala district are to remain closed because of failure to abide by the standard operating procedures-SOPs to avoid the spread of the coronavirus. Rev. Abraham Lubega Kisakye, the head of the training department in Namirembe Diocese …

Students, teachers return with post-COVID lockdown problems Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Schools are scheduled to re-open on Oct. 15, for some 1.2 million learners who are in their final year of their respective levels of formal education. But as school administrators and parents continue mulling over how to …

London, England | XINHUA |    A total of 770 students have tested positive for coronavirus in a British university in one of the major outbreaks in Britain since the reopening of the campuses in September, a university spokesperson said Friday. The spokesperson for Northumbria University, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, …

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL | XINHUA |   Brazil again exceeded 1,000 daily deaths caused by the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) after registering 1,031 fatalities from the disease in the past 24 hours, raising the death toll to 143,952, the government said on Wednesday. According to the Ministry of Health, it was …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA |   Liverpool confirmed on Tuesday that Spain international midfielder Thiago Alcantara has tested positive for the coronavirus. Thiago joined Liverpool from Bayern Munich earlier in September and although he made his debut against Chelsea eight days ago, he missed Monday night’s 3-1 win at home to …