Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Council of Higher Education -NCHE has communicated that Higher Institutions of learning will open after the next three months. According to the National Council of Higher Education (NCHE) Executive Director Professor Mary Okwakol, the communication is based on prior advice from the Minister …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Results of a large international study whose results were presented tWednesday at the global HIV for prevention conference show it’ is possible to prevent HIV infection using laboratory manufactured antibodies also known as broadly neutralizing antibodies or monoclonal antibodies. Dr. Larry Corey a professor at Fred …
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Kampala, Uganda | FLAVIA NASSAKA | President Yoweri Museveni has expressed displeasure at what he called a ‘slave mentality’ among scientists in Uganda. “I do not know what the problem with Africans. If the Europeans do not get a solution, we wait and die? This I cannot accept,” he said. The …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The health ministry has embarked on a training program for health workers amidst a surge in infections in this category and uncertainty on whether or not they contract the virus in the line of duty. The program will see at least 2000 health workers training …
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Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | The CEO of Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, said on Tuesday that they hope to deliver 145 to 150 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines in the first quarter of 2021 and 500 million doses in the second quarter, and then 1.5 billion in the second half of …
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New York, USA | THE INDEPENDENT | Global COVID-19 cases surpassed 100 million on Tuesday, according to the Center for Systems Science and Engineering (CSSE) at Johns Hopkins University. The global case count reached 100,032,461, with a total of 2,149,818 deaths worldwide, as of 2:22 p.m. local time (1922 GMT), …
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This interview from the World Health Organisation (WHO) conversations in science programme explains more about variants of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19, how concerned we should be, and whether vaccines provide protection against these variants. Vismita Gupta-Smith interviewed WHO’s Chief Scientist, Dr. Soumya Swaminathan. Soumya, tell us what …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | COVAX facility has signed a new advance purchase agreement of up to 40 million doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine. According to a new statement, the rollout of the drug will commence with the successful negotiation and execution of supply agreements which will add on to …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda which some public health experts heralded as shining examples for its handling of coronavirus has had a “dramatic” increase in deaths and cases. What some have described as “rapid increase” in Covid-19 infection rates has prompted appeals to people to adhere to public health …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 40 private hospitals and clinics in Kampala Metropolitan have been accredited by the ministry of health to collect COVID-19 samples. Dr Charles Olaro, the director of curative services at the ministry of health says that the move is aimed at bringing services nearer to people. …
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