Amuru, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The residents of Elegu town council in Amuru district are appealing for a massive COVID-19 tests to be carried out following their interaction with truck drivers whose status is unknown. Over 2000 truck drivers from the East African countries recently staged a strike, parking their …
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Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A suspected outbreak of Coccidiosis has claimed hundreds of poultry birds in Palaro Sub County in Gulu district. The disease has been reported in Palaro trading center, Mede, Oroko and Ongedo parishes. An infected bird manifests with drooping in chicken, flu, difficulty in breathing, discharge …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The vast majority of COVID-19 vaccines administered have so far gone to wealthy nations, with only 0.2 per cent coming to low-income countries like Uganda. Statistics released by the World Health Organization show that on average in high-income countries 1 in 4 people has received …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Joint Medical Stores –JMS has lost medical equipment worth 7 Billion Shillings in a fire that gutted several warehouses. On Friday, fire gutted warehouses belonging to Madhvani Group of Companies located at the 5th Street Industrial Area. The fire is believed to have …
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Entebbe, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | There is a public outcry on the changing face of Entebbe, to an image that is not befitting of a town that was up until recent years branded one of the cleanest towns in Uganda. Its location, as the host of Uganda’s sole international …
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Tokyo, Japan | XINHUA | Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga Thursday said that Tokyo will likely be placed under stronger anti-virus measures due to a resurgence of COVID-19 infections in the capital and increased pressure on healthcare facilities. The Japanese leader said the new, tougher measures will come into effect …
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Rome, Italy | XINHUA | Italy will be able to meet the targets planned for the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination campaign, Prime Minister Mario Draghi said on Thursday. “The availability of vaccines has not declined, the numbers (of daily jabs) are back again to the level we had before Easter, and …
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Cairo, Egypt | XINHUA | Egyptian Health Minister Hala Zayed on Thursday lauded the cooperation between Egypt and China on combating the COVID-19 pandemic as “fruitful and unprecedented.” “I would like to thank the state of China, its leadership, government and people, for their great solidarity with us in this …
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Serere, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Serere district is set to start the second phase of Indoor Residual Spraying in another intervention to eradicate malaria, the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Uganda. The spraying exercise is part of a five-year USAID-funded project in several districts of Eastern Uganda. …
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Geneva, Switzerland | THE INDEPENDENT | An additional USD 2 billion is required in 2021 to finance and secure up to a total of 1.8 billion donor-funded doses of COVID-19 vaccines, according to the COVAX facility, an initiative led by UNICEF, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance and the World Health Organization …
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