Tag Archives: COVID-19

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday listed the Moderna COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, making it the fifth vaccine to receive emergency validation from the WHO. In December 2020, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency use authorization for the Moderna vaccine, while the …

Oyam, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Residents of Oyam District have appealed to the District leaders and Ministry of Health to enforce a lockdown to curtail community transmission of the Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19). In the last few days the District Task Force released test results confirming 82 new infections in a …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Clays Ltd, Uganda’s oldest clay building materials manufacture, has returned to making profit despite a slight decline in revenues in year ended December 2020, according to the financial statements.  The company reports that profit after tax for the period increased by 5639% to Ushs 4.9 …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The government has banned flights to and from India following the high COVID- 19 infections and deaths in the Asian country.  India has so far recorded more than 18 million cases of COVID-19 with over 208,000 deaths. The country is also in a crisis with …

Complacency and disregard for public health measures could trigger a new wave of Covid-19 infections Nairobi, Kenya | Xinhua | Many African countries are at high risk of COVID-19 resurgence amid lax adherence to containment measures combined with low vaccination and testing, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said. Matshidiso Moeti, WHO …

  Berlin, Germany | Xinhua | German biotechnology company BioNTech and U.S. company Pfizer have submitted a request to the European Medicines Agency (EMA) for the approval of an extension of their COVID-19 vaccine use in adolescents aged 12 to 15, the two companies announced on Friday. The submission was based on …

Gulu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The COVID-19 risk and communication committee is seeking 186 Million Shillings funding to intensify public sensitization campaigns against the epidemic in the wake of the infections surge. A survey conducted by the committee reveals that only 15 per cent of Gulu’s 500,000 population put on …

Rome, Italy |  XINHUA |  The European Union (EU) announced this week it was suing pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca for breach of contract amid major delivery shortfalls, a case that legal analysts said could be hard to prove. A spokesman for the European Commission told Xinhua Wednesday that AstraZeneca had indicated …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) has detected the Indian COVID-19 variant in Kampala. According to officials from the Ministry of Health, the variant also referred to as -B.1.617 was detected from travelers returning from Indian. The variant was picked up after the travelers …

Washington, USA  |  XINHUA |   The U.S. Federal Reserve on Wednesday kept its benchmark interest rates unchanged at the record-low level of near zero, as economic recovery gathers momentum on COVID-19 vaccination progress and strong fiscal support. “Amid progress on vaccinations and strong policy support, indicators of economic activity and …