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 …
Read More »Opposition demand special Covid-19 budget for Kampala
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 …
Read More »Namboole Covid-19 centre registers drop in patient numbers
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 …
Read More »COVIDEX: Lawyer sues Prof Ogwang, wants cash from sales surrendered to gov’t
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 …
Read More »Covid-19 kills 15 private security guards, grounds 100 more
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 …
Read More »Kabale RDC apologizes over brutality of health workers
Kabale, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Kabale Resident District Commissioner Darius Nandinda has apologized to health workers in the district for being harassed by security personnel enforcing the Covid-19 presidential directives. In the past weeks, security personnel in the district have been under criticism for brutalizing healthy workers. On Sunday night, …
Read More »ICU beds lying idle in regional referral hospitals
Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Regional referral hospitals are still dusting beds procured by the Ministry of Health for Intensive Care Unit- ICU wards. The beds and other equipment for the units are stuck in stores and others in open spaces at the hospital parking lots. Intensive care units (ICU) …
Read More »Pfizer developing COVID-19 booster shot to target Delta variant
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 …
Read More »UNICEF signs agreement on supply of 220 mln doses of COVID-19 vaccine to Africa
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 …
Read More »Minister Anywar moves to pay health workers risk allowances in Kitgum
Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | State Minister for Environment Beatrice Atim Anywar has donated five million Shillings to the Kitgum district COVID-19 taskforce to facilitate payment of risk allowances for health workers. Anywar says the intervention follows concerns by the district COVID-19 taskforce and health workers who had gone for …
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