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Russian controversial vaccine shows 92% efficacy in early data

Russian controversial vaccine shows 92% efficacy in early data

COVID-19 Updates – The Independent Uganda: Lorry Mukisa November 13, 2020

Russia vaccine Sputnik V Kampala, Uganda |   THE INDEPENDENT |    Russia has announced that it’s vaccine Sputnik V …

Africa needs USD 12 billion to access COVID-19 vaccine

Africa needs USD 12 billion to access COVID-19 vaccine

COVID-19 Updates – The Independent Uganda: Lorry Mukisa November 11, 2020

coronavirus (file photo) Kampala, Uganda |   THE INDEPENDENT |   The African Union has a commitment of USD 5 billio…

Health ministry revisits COVID-19 burial protocols, families to bury the dead

Health ministry revisits COVID-19 burial protocols, families to bury the dead

COVID-19 Updates – The Independent Uganda: Lorry Mukisa November 10, 2020

Redcross teams carrying out Safe and Dignified Burials Kampala, Uganda |   THE INDEPENDENT |   Families have now be…

BioNTech and Pfizer make COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough

BioNTech and Pfizer make COVID-19 vaccine breakthrough

COVID-19 Updates – The Independent Uganda: Lorry Mukisa November 09, 2020

Scientists at work at the Pfizer labs where a breakthrough in a vaccine has been announced Mainz, Germany | THE I…

People using porous borders to avoid expensive Covid-19 tests

People using porous borders to avoid expensive Covid-19 tests

COVID-19 Updates – The Independent Uganda: Lorry Mukisa November 08, 2020

Peter Magara, the Mutukula Immigration Officer. Courtesy photo Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Mutukula border …

Two clinics in Kabale closed after admitting Covid-19 patients

Two clinics in Kabale closed after admitting Covid-19 patients

COVID-19 Updates – The Independent Uganda: Lorry Mukisa November 08, 2020

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Health authorities in Kabale district have today closed two clinics for admitting…

COVID-19 helped parliament perform better – Oulanyah

COVID-19 helped parliament perform better – Oulanyah

COVID-19 Updates – The Independent Uganda: Lorry Mukisa November 07, 2020

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  The COVID-19 pandemic helped the Parliament to overcome quorum crisis that had do…

Absa Bank donates personal protection equipment to medical facilities

Absa Bank donates personal protection equipment to medical facilities

COVID-19 Updates – The Independent Uganda: Lorry Mukisa November 06, 2020

Segwaya (right) handing over a sample of the PPEs to Baylor’s Kekitiinwa. Kampala, Uganda | Julius Businge |  Absa B…

Nine health staff dismissed from Gulu hospital COVID-19 treatment unit

Nine health staff dismissed from Gulu hospital COVID-19 treatment unit

COVID-19 Updates – The Independent Uganda: Lorry Mukisa November 03, 2020

Gulu Hospital Covid-19 health team. File Photo Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  Nine health workers attached to …

Audits expose accountability flaws in procurement of face masks by the Health Ministry

Audits expose accountability flaws in procurement of face masks by the Health Ministry

COVID-19 Updates – The Independent Uganda: Lorry Mukisa November 02, 2020

Ministry of Finance is also asking the Auditor General to undertake a forensic audit on all expenditures by the Health…

Long term symptoms of COVID-19 ‘really concerning’- WHO

Long term symptoms of COVID-19 ‘really concerning’- WHO

COVID-19 Updates – The Independent Uganda: Lorry Mukisa October 31, 2020

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus Kampala, Uganda |   THE INDEPENDENT |  With some COVID-19 patients reporting l…

U.S. COVID-19 cases surpass 9 mln — Johns Hopkins University

U.S. COVID-19 cases surpass 9 mln — Johns Hopkins University

COVID-19 Updates – The Independent Uganda: Lorry Mukisa October 31, 2020

People wearing face masks are seen in the Georgetown neighbourhood in Washington, D.C., the United States, on Oct. 30,…

Kyotera Covid-19 taskforce relaxes on enforcement of Covid-19 guidelines

Kyotera Covid-19 taskforce relaxes on enforcement of Covid-19 guidelines

COVID-19 Updates – The Independent Uganda: Lorry Mukisa October 30, 2020

The empty watercans placed at Mutukula, these are not refilled to ensure handwashing principle Kyotera, Uganda |   …

COVID-19: Remittance flows to shrink by 14%

COVID-19: Remittance flows to shrink by 14%

COVID-19 Updates – The Independent Uganda: Lorry Mukisa October 30, 2020

coronavirus Kampala, Uganda |   THE INDEPENDENT |    The amount of money migrant workers send home is projected to …

Panic as Mukono laboratory technician succumbs to COVID-19

Panic as Mukono laboratory technician succumbs to COVID-19

COVID-19 Updates – The Independent Uganda: Lorry Mukisa October 29, 2020

Mukono General Hosipital main building. Mukono, Uganda |   THE INDEPENDENT |   Medical workers at Mukono General Ho…

How sports will reshape global conversations in the COVID era

How sports will reshape global conversations in the COVID era

COVID-19 Updates – The Independent Uganda: Lorry Mukisa October 28, 2020

Uganda Olympic Committee chief William Blick (middle) with Ugandan athletes including Cheptegei (kitengi). The impact…

Col. Bantariza: A lion retires

Col. Bantariza: A lion retires

COVID-19 Updates – The Independent Uganda: Lorry Mukisa October 28, 2020

THE LAST WORD | Andrew M. Mwenda | I woke up yesterday morning only to hear that the deputy head of the Uganda Media …

Uganda to produce COVID-19 prophylactic treatments from donated plasma

Uganda to produce COVID-19 prophylactic treatments from donated plasma

COVID-19 Updates – The Independent Uganda: Lorry Mukisa October 23, 2020

COVID-19 Kampala, Uganda |   THE INDEPENDENT |    Uganda is set to start production of possible preventive treatmen…

Stock out of sample collection swabs halts COVID-19 testing in Gulu

Stock out of sample collection swabs halts COVID-19 testing in Gulu

COVID-19 Updates – The Independent Uganda: Lorry Mukisa October 22, 2020

Gulu Regional Referral Hospital Gulu, Uganda |   THE INDEPENDENT |    Gulu Regional Referral Hospital has run out o…

Health minister tests positive for COVID-19

Health minister tests positive for COVID-19

COVID-19 Updates – The Independent Uganda: Lorry Mukisa October 18, 2020

Cape Town, South Africa | Xinhua | South African Health Minister Zweli Mkhize and his wife tested positive for COV…

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