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Chinese Community In Uganda Imports COVID-19 Vaccines As Death Toll Skyrockets

Chinese Community In Uganda Imports COVID-19 Vaccines As Death Toll Skyrockets

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By Keefa Nuwahereza Over 4,000 Chinese working in Uganda and members of their family are to receive Coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination after the government of Uganda authorized them to procure a consignment of vaccines from China. This Website has since established that the vaccines are to be flown into the country after they were ordered for by the Chinese Community operating in Kapeeka Industrial Park. A letter from the Office of the Senior Presidential Advisor, Medical Affairs, at State House directing David Nahamya,  the Executive Director National Drug Authority (NDA), to handle the procurement, reads in part thus; Letter from State House directing NDA Executive Director David Nahamya to handle the procurement of COVID-19 vaccines “Our phone on the 20th November, ...
America Hails Nigerian Doctor Who Helped In Discovery Of COVID-19 Vaccine

America Hails Nigerian Doctor Who Helped In Discovery Of COVID-19 Vaccine

FEATURED, Health
By Our Reporter A Nigerian medical doctor help American scientists in the discovery and productions of a vaccine for Coronavirus (COVID-19)  has been recognised by the United States Embassy in Nigeria for his great work. Dr. Onyema Ogbuagu, who  is an Associate Professor of medicine at Yale University, is one of those leading the research at Pfizer for a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States, reason why he has been hailed for his role in the development of a COVID-19 vaccine in America. Earlier in the month, US drug manufacturing firm, Pfizer, announced that the vaccine has an efficacy rate of more than 90 percent, marking a major breakthrough in the fight against the pandemic. “Nigerians contribute to the world in so many ways,” the US Mission in Nigeria tweeted on ...