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Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that some countries battling the COVID-19 pandemic who have been taking a “fragmented approach” to suppressing the deadly virus, face a long, hard road ahead.   Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told the regular coronavirus press briefing …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Nearly six months after the new coronavirus first emerged, the COVID-19 pandemic is “not even close to being over”, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has warned. Speaking on the eve of the grim milestone, Dr Tedros called for …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The World Health Organization (WHO) said Monday that global COVID-19 cases had reached 10,004,707, after the records of daily new cases had been refreshed repeatedly for the past few days. The latest WHO numbers show that as for 10:43 a.m. CEST (0843 GMT), the total confirmed …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The World Health Organization (WHO) said Friday that the WHO-led global response to COVID-19 needs 31.3 billion U.S. dollars for therapeutics, vaccines and diagnostics over the next 12 months, including two billion doses of vaccines. The money would go to the Access to COVID-19 Tools …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | A study conducted in India’s villages has found that 86 percent of the health providers in rural India were private “doctors” and 68 percent had no formal medical training like Bachelor of Medicine or MBBS. The survey, conducted in 1,519 villages across 19 states, revealed …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  The eastern province of the Democratic Republic of Congo-DRC has been declared free of Ebola Virus Disease by the World Health Organisation almost two years since the Ebola outbreak was declared in the country. The Ebola outbreak which began in August 2018 in eastern DRC, …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | The World Health Organization (WHO)’s repeated warning of a possible resurgence of COVID-19 in the European region has now become a reality, Hans Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe, said Thursday. “Last week, Europe saw an increase in weekly cases for the first time in months,” …

Kampala, Uganda | XINHUA | Congolese health minister Eteni Longondo announced on Thursday that the Ebola virus disease epidemic in the northeastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has ended. According to the minister, this has been the longest and most complex Ebola epidemic in the history of …

Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT |  Uganda’s COVID-19 cases have risen to 821 after 16 cases tested positive from samples that were tested on Wednesday.  The positive cases were picked from over 3,000 samples that were tested from different testing centres. Five of the positive cases were picked from points of …

Analysis of Uganda’s COVID-19-defined general elections COMMENT | JOSEPH MUKASA NGUBWAGYE | Last week, the Electoral Commission (EC) of Uganda launched a new road map for the 2021 general elections. The most controversial pronouncement was that the process, including campaigns and polling, will be “scientific”. In his words, the EC Chairman …