Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Karenga district in Karamoja sub region in the North Eastern Uganda have arrested a laboratory technician attached to Kapedo health centre III for allegedly refusing to carry out test on Covid-19 suspects, demanding first to to be paid his allowance. Robert Lamson …
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Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of Parliament on the Covid-19 Taskforce have faulted the Ministry of Health for hiring private laboratories to test passengers arriving at Entebbe International Airport. On Saturday, the MPs visited the airport and met officials from the Uganda Civil Aviation Authority. In May, a covid-19 …
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London, UK | Xinhua | British Health Secretary Sajid Javid said Saturday that he has tested positive for COVID-19 after feeling “a bit groggy” last night. He said on Twitter that he has had two jabs of the vaccine and his symptoms are “mild”. He is now self-isolating at home …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gulu University has said that they are ready to conduct clinical trials for Covilyce-1, a herbal medicine. A clinical trial is a stage where experiments are conducted to obtain sufficient evidence that a drug can be considered effective as a medical treatment. Three weeks ago, …
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How public anger against Uganda government’s response to COVID is driven more by prejudice than facts THE LAST WORD | ANDREW M. MWENDA | Last Saturday, I lost my auntie, Princess Damali Komukyeeya of Toro. I tweeted that although she had COVID, she was fairly fine Friday evening. She developed breathing …
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Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Residents of Omunyole village in Kisoko Sub-county in Tororo district are stuck with a 6 feet grave they dug a week ago to bury a man who tricked his family that he had succumbed to COVID-19. Charles Ogolla alias “Obwanga” reportedly used his friends …
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Havana, Cuba | Xinhua | Cuba once again set a record for the number of daily cases of COVID-19, with 3,475 infections and 15 deaths in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Public Health reported on Saturday. The ministry’s director of hygiene and epidemiology, Francisco Duran, said in his …
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Lisbon, Portugal | Xinhua | Portugal will accelerate the immunization campaign against COVID-19 to curb the rapid spread of the Delta variant, vice-admiral Henrique Gouveia e Melo, Portuguese vaccination coordinator, said Saturday. The goal is to vaccinate “about 850,000 people a week” using the “maximum stocks of vaccine” available, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health experts have dismissed allegations that the COVID-19 vaccine is responsible for the death of people succumbing to the virus shortly after taking the jab. Dr. Alfred Driwale, the Assistant Commissioner & Program Manager of Uganda National Expanded Program on Immunization-UNEPI, says that while …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | June has so far been the worst month for Uganda in as far as the coronavirus pandemic concerned. It has been characterized by surging cases, a new total lockdown, skyrocketing deaths, oxygen shortages, lack of beds for critical patients as well as an upsurge in …
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