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Uganda: Uganda to Start Covid-19 Vaccine Trials in December
Monitor, 10 August 2020
The Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) is partnering with Imperial College London to start the first Covid-19 vaccine trial in the country by December. Read more »
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Uganda: Covid-19 - Death Toll in Uganda Rises to 9
Monitor, 10 August 2020
The Ministry of Health on Monday confirmed two more deaths of Covid-19 bringing the number of people who have succumbed to the disease in Uganda to nine. Read more »
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Uganda: Uganda Registers Sixth Covid-19 Death
Monitor, 7 August 2020
The Ministry of Health has recorded the latest case of COVID-19 death, bringing Uganda's death toll to six. Read more »
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Africa: Uganda's COVID-19 Neglect of Minorities Is Bad for Everyone
African Arguments, 22 June 2020
The government should both support the country's religious minorities and be open to learning from their unique wells of expertise. Read more »
Uganda Preparing for Covid-19 Vaccine Trials
The Uganda Virus Research Institute is partnering with Imperial College London to start the first Covid-19 vaccine trial in the country by December 2020. During the Global Vaccine Summit, hosted virtually by the UK government in June, the WHO welcomed a five-year, U.S.$1.6 billion commitment to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to deliver lifesaving vaccines to the world's poorest countries. There are existing vaccine manufacturing capacities in African countries because some of these countries are involved in the development of vaccines, including yellow fever and Ebola, according Matshidiso Moeti, WHO Africa Regional Director. Uganda has 1,313 confirmed cases of Covid-19 and nine deaths.
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As of August 21, 2022, confirmed cases of Covid-19 from 55 African countries reached 12,126,067 while 373,195,217 vaccinations have been administered across ... Read more »
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Africa has the capacity to mass-produce vaccines against COVID-19 if they become available next year but the region will need to be more involved in their search, writes Jackie ... Read more »
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The South African Ox1Cov-19 Vaccine VIDA-trial developed by Wits University researchers is a first for Africa and one of 268 other candidate vaccines currently being researched and ... Read more »
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The World Health Organisation has welcomed a five-year, U.S.$1.6 billion commitment to Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, to deliver lifesaving vaccines to the world's poorest countries ... Read more »
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President Yoweri Museveni has said that because some people had ignored with "indiscipline and Inconsideration" the measures imposed by the government, more stringent action had to ... Read more »
