Mexico City, Mexico | XINHUA | The COVID-19 pandemic has increased poverty, expanded the size of the informal economy, and threatened the weak health systems of some countries in Central America, experts have said. According to the Inter-American Development Bank, 274,000 formal jobs could be lost in Guatemala, 130,000 in …
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Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kitgum district security committee has stopped the distribution of food relief to private school teachers in the district by a group named Food for Teachers. The group had launched a fundraising drive to support teachers in 30 private schools and tertiary institutions in Kitgum …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Private healthcare providers are calling for the establishment of a health sector commission to coordinate different entities in times of emergencies like the current COVID-19 pandemic. Dr Ian Clarke, the chairman of the Uganda Healthcare Federation; an organization that brings together private health facilities …
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Arua, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of the Arua district COVID-19 taskforce are struggling to manage more than 20 children whose mothers are isolated at Arua Prison Primary School quarantine centre. Norman Cwinyai, the team leader of the COVID-19 surveillance and laboratory services team in Arua said that up …
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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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