Elegu, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Health has deployed technical support staff to roll out the Regional Electronic Cargo and Driver Tracking System at the Elegu Border post. Early this year, Elegu border became the epicentre of COVID-19 transmission in the country which was attributed to long-distance cargo …
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Hanoi, Vietnam | XINHUA | The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) concluded its 37th summit and related meetings on Sunday, putting priorities on measures to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic and commitments to multilateral cooperation. Addressing the closing ceremony, Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Xuan Phuc said that leaders of …
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Promising results – here’s what needs to happen next | ANNE MOORE | Preliminary data from the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine trial suggests it provides 90% efficacy at preventing the disease. At the very least, this news will result in a large sigh of relief across the vaccine community. It signifies …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mourners for the late Teso Coach proprietor, Faustine Etilu have launched a fundraising drive to save COVID-19 patients at Soroti Regional Referral Hospital. The campaign is meant to raise funds for the repair and connection of a standby generator to the oxygen plant at the …
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Washington, US | Xinhua | U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday called for Congress to pass a “big and focused” COVID-19 relief bill as confirmed cases are surging across the country. “Congress must now do a Covid Relief Bill. Needs Democrats support. Make it big and focused. Get it done!” Trump …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Members of the Busoga parliamentary caucus have eulogized the fallen Kamuli Municipality MP, Rehema Watongola who succumbed to COVID-19 at Mulago National Referral Hospital on Saturday morning. Watongola’s death comes barely a week after losing her brother to COVID-19. Speaking at Jinja city hall on …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Kamuli Municipality MP, Hajat Rehema Watongola has succumbed to COVID-19 at Mulago National Referral Hospital. The deceased’s husband Badiru Watongola, who doubles as the Kamuli Municipality NRM chairperson told URN on phone that his wife breathed her last at around 11:30 am, Saturday morning. He …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Arcades and shopping malls in the Kampala Central Business have abandoned the Standard Operating Procedures- SOPs put in place by the government to stop the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. In July, while reopening arcades and shopping malls following three months of closure, president, Yoweri …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of members of parliament have criticized the ministry of health for allowing families to bury their dead who succumb to COVID-19. The government had initially taken up the burial arrangements, to guarantee safe and dignified burials, as usually done when dealing with highly …
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Kampala, Uganda | Julius Businge | How critical are bars when it comes to fueling economic growth? Is it possible to respect standard operating procedures where sobriety is doubted amidst rising COVID-19 cases? These could have been some of the questions that President Yoweri Museveni and his national COVID-19 taskforce asked …
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