Bushenyi, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Gordon Arinda, the former Bushenyi-Ishaka Municipality Member of Parliament has succumbed to COVID-19. Arinda breathed his last at Mbarara Regional Referral Hospital on Sunday where he was admitted in the Intensive Care Unit on Friday. Mary Karooro Okurut, the former General Duties Minister confirmed Arinda’s …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Dr. Alice Veronica Lamwaka, the lead researcher and inventor of the Covilyce1 herbal concoction for treating coronavirus diseases, has lost essential research materials in a bitter land row. The affected research materials include African bamboo among other natural weeds, trees, and plants. It was …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Plans by several schools to make a COVID-19 test compulsory for returning students, and to also increase school fees, could be frustrated if orders by the Ministry of Education are enforced. Several educationists URN talked to are however not happy with the directive, saying …
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Tororo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The government has dropped its decision requiring truckers to undergo a mandatory COVID-19 testing before entering the country. The truckers have been paying sh100,000 for COVID-19 testing before they are allowed to cross into Uganda. Recently, the truckers from Kenya rose up in protest …
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Brasilia, Brazil, | Xinhua | Brazil recorded the first death from the Omicron variant of COVID-19 Thursday in the city of Aparecida de Goiania of Goias state. The municipality reported that the victim was a 68-year-old man with high blood pressure suffering from “chronic obstructive pulmonary disease,” who was admitted …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The public will be required to present proof of full vaccination to access transport services effective 1st April, 2022. Addressing journalists at the Media Centre on Friday, the Minister for Health Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng said that all passengers aged 18 years and above will …
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New York, U.S. | Xinhua | Global COVID-19 cases topped 300 million on Thursday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University. The United States reported 58,449,898 cases and 833,957 deaths, both the highest counts around the world, accounting for more than 19 percent of the …
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Lima, Peru | Xinhua | Peru’s Health Ministry on Thursday reported the country’s first fatal case of “flurona” (a simultaneous infection of flu and COVID-19), involving an 87-year-old patient with comorbidities who was not vaccinated against the coronavirus. The deceased was one of three cases of flurona detected in northern Peru’s …
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Lamwo, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders in Lamwo district are concerned about the increasing cases of COVID-19 registered over the past four days. The district has recorded 79 cases between January 2 and January 5, 2022, from the various testing centres. Reports from the district taskforce indicate that there were …
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Luwero, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Luwero district taskforce on COVID-19 has issued a directive to block unvaccinated residents from accessing the district headquarters. Juliet Najjuma Ssenkoole, the chairperson of Luwero district taskforce on COVID-19 says that the directive is intended to protect the civil servants and encourage the public to …
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