WHO Begins Clinical Trials for Ebola Vaccine
It has deployed three candidate vaccines in Uganda
It has deployed three candidate vaccines in Uganda
There is increasing public fatigue over lockdowns and travel restrictions.
The state-of-the-art clinic will offer medicare to the country’s President, Vice President and other government officials.
The Presidency has given an assurance that the presidential wing of the VIP hospital situated within the State House would be inaugurated before the end of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration in May, 2023.
While the numbers remain relatively low, China has relentlessly pursued its strict “zero-COVID” policy of quarantines, lockdowns and daily or near-daily compulsory testing.
This comes as 1,427,370 persons have been displaced by floods with 18,093 suspected cholera cases.
Passengers from Uganda have been placed on a 21-day watchlist.
It stressed that stringent safe routine protocol are always followed before any human vaccines are administered.
More than 800,000 people in one district in Wuhan were told to stay at home until 30 October.
Describing the global response to the pandemic as discriminatory, he said the world must not allow the serious public health failure to happen again.
The vaccine brought in $36.78 billion in revenue last year for Pfizer and was the drugmaker’s top-selling product.
WHO said the economic burden of physical inactivity was significant.
The claim was made made by the organisation’s Regional Director for Africa, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti.
It noted that the medicine has caused the death of 66 children in Gambia.
The National Primary Healthcare Development Agency has commenced outbreak response campaigns in 12 affected northern States.
According to WHO’s director, so far 63 cases have been confirmed including 29 deaths.
Uganda has confirmed a case of the Sudan ebolavirus in Mubende district in the central part of the country.
She said some clinicians tend to treat malaria when children have recurrent fever before thinking of cancer.
This is the most upbeat assessment from the UN agency since it declared an international emergency in January 2020.
It urged the governments of Ekiti, Ondo and Imo States to clear unpaid salaries and wages of doctors and other health workers.
Meanwhile the UK said it has identified a different strain of the infection traced to West Africa.
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