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Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Key workers and other vulnerable people in 145 countries should receive COVID-19 vaccines in the first half of this year, under the joint UN-led COVAX initiative for fair access to coronavirus-beating jabs, it’s been confirmed.   Some 1.2 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine which requires …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Common antibiotic azithromycin has been found not to have any effect on treating COVID-19, according to a new study published in the medical journal, The Lancet. The study showed that the drug had no effect on patients admitted to hospitals. It could not reduce deaths …

Government has tabled a supplementary requirement of sh292 billion shillings for the financial year 2020/2021 ✳ UCE exams March 1 to 31 ✳ PLE March 30th & 31 ✳ UACE April 12 – 30 Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda National Examination Board (UNEB) is seeking an additional sh10.465 …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Health experts are worried that the reopening of educational institutions for non-candidate might trigger a surge in COVID-19 cases if schools do not fully adhere to the required Standard Operating Procedures -SOPs. During the first phase of re-opening, schools were required to put in place …

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 …