Epidemics Tracker

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | Xinhua |  The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Africa reached 8,420,043 as of Saturday afternoon, the Africa Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. The Africa CDC, the specialized healthcare agency of the African Union (AU), said the death toll from the pandemic …

Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | COVID-19 vaccination cards are being sold to unvaccinated people at a cost of Sh100,000 in Lira, according to Ivan Kareiga, the Officer in Charge of operations at Lira Central Police Station. While addressing the COVID-19 task force meeting on Thursday, Kareiga informed the team …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Deaths from tuberculosis – one of the top infectious killers in the world – have increased for the first time in a decade, as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the World Health Organization. Tuberculosis (TB) is the second deadliest infectious …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPDNENT | All is set for the new Uganda Premier League season. The league is slated to kick off today. Ahead of the new League, Decolus Kiiza, the FUFA Deputy CEO in charge of Football says that players have either received their first COVID-19 jab …

Abuja, Nigeria | Xinhua |  Nigerian government has said it will compel federal civil servants to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 before gaining access to their offices from Dec. 1. The move was to encourage the vaccination rate across the country, said Boss Mustapha, the secretary to the government …

  Abuja, Nigeria | Xinhua | Nigerian government has said it will compel federal civil servants to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 before gaining access to their offices from Dec. 1. The move was to encourage the vaccination rate across the country, said Boss Mustapha, the secretary to the government …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has received 73 Million Shillings from the Ministry of Health for allowances of nurses carrying out the Covid-19 vaccination exercise. Last week, nurses deployed at several KCCA vaccination centres shunned the exercise protesting the non-payment of their allowances. The nurses …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | World Bank Group President David Malpass said on Wednesday that the COVID-19 pandemic is pushing up poverty and debt levels in low-income countries, highlighting a “tragic reversal” in development. “It’s already pushed nearly 100 million people into extreme poverty. That’s the added number in extreme poverty,” …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health is still struggling with inaccessibility to the COVID-19 vaccines, even though many vaccination points have sprouted out in different sites around Kampala. So far, only 2.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered with majority of people getting only one …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Police in Kampala has arrested two people suspected to be part of a racket issuing fake COVID-19 test results to travellers. Kampala Metropolitan Deputy Police Spokesperson Luke Owoyesigyire has identified the suspects as Francis Luke and Joshua Bakabuye, both residents of Kawempe. Their arrest came after …