Epidemics Tracker

Mbarara, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Professor Patrick Ogwang, the owner of Jena Herbals Uganda Limited and inventor of the COVID-19 treatment supplementary drug known as Covidex has told Mbarara University of Science and Technology-MUST to back off his innovations. After attaining approval of the National Drug Authority (NDA), Prof. …

Jinja, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Jinja regional referral hospital’s pharmacy is facing a stock out of essential drugs which are highly recommended for the management of covid19 patients. The hospital is reported to have runout of Azithromycin, Vitamin C and Zinc in early June this year and have not …

  Jakarta, Indonesia | Xinhua |  Indonesia is planning to inject the third doses of COVID-19 vaccine to healthcare workers across the country next week, a minister said. The country’s Health Ministry will start the vaccination program using the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine next week, targeting 1.47 million health workers across …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Leaders in Kampala City have asked the government to allocate a special budget for the management of the Covid-19 pandemic in Kampala. Kampala and Wakiso districts have been hit hard by the Covid-19 second wave. Before declaring a 42-day lockdown, President Yoweri Museveni banned …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Namboole stadium COVID-19 treatment centre in Kampala, has recorded a major drop in cases, with only 40 patients currently in admission. Just a few weeks ago, there were fears that the health system would collapse with single day deaths increasing to 50, and …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Lawyer George William Alenyo has sued Professor Patrick Ogwang, the inventor of Covid-19 treatment supplementary drug known as Covidex. He is seeking orders that Prof Ogwang is not the lawful proprietor of Covidex and therefore remit monies collected to the consolidated fund. Alenyo is joined …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | At least 15 private security guards have succumbed to the new wave of Covid-19 in the last few weeks, according to The Uganda Private Security Association-TUPSA chairman Grace Matsiko. Matsiko in an interview with Uganda Radio Network said the new Covid-19 wave has ravaged various …

Washington, U.S. | Xinhua | Pfizer and BioNTech said they are developing a COVID-19 booster shot intended to target the highly transmissible Delta variant, according to U.S. media reports on Thursday. Concerns continue to rise as the Delta strain has already become the dominant variant in the United States, causing increasing …

United Nations | Xinhua | The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Thursday announced the signing of an agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV to supply 220 million doses of the Johnson & Johnson single-dose vaccine for all 55 member states of the African Union (AU) by the end of 2022. Some 35 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Minister of Finance Matia Kasaija has said that Ugandan scientists have requested for more than 248 Billion shillings for producing the Covid-19 vaccine. Kasaija was appearing before Parliament’s Covid-19 taskforce together with Henry Musasizi, the State Minister for Finance General Duties and Kenneth Mugambe, …