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Two Covid-19 Vaccine Makers Plan to Produce Jabs for Africa After 2021
Pfizer offers to supply 50 million doses for health workersModerna, AstraZeneca have no vaccines available for Africa Africa has few options to procure Covid-19 vaccines as the outbreak of the disease worsens across many parts of the continent, South Africa’s presidency said. Pfizer Inc. and BioNTech SE have offered to supply Africa with…
Read More »US Gives Immunity to COVID-19 Vaccine Makers, Can’t be Sued for Side Effects
You can’t sue Pfizer or Moderna if you have severe Covid vaccine side effects. The government likely won’t compensate you for damages either If you experience severe side effects after getting a Covid vaccine, lawyers say there is basically no one to blame in a U.S. court of law. You…
Read More »Quiet Festive Season As Government Bans COVID-19 ‘Super Spreader’ Gatherings
Such police paradings of culprits found flauting covid-19 regulations, are a daily occurrence at various police police posts in the country. They are usually fined and released, usually after also spending night in a stadium Rwandan social media is once again going silent. The flamboyant gatherings at which attendees shared…
Read More »Scientists Discover Why Some COVID-19 Patients Have Deadly Symptoms While Others Have None
UK scientists said Friday they had identified genetic variants that made patients more likely to develop severe COVID-19, in a breakthrough that could see new and existing drugs help patients survive the illness. To determine why some people develop severe lung inflammation when sick with COVID-19, researchers analyzed mutations on…
Read More »Two British Medical Staff Experience “Adverse Reaction” After Receiving COVID-19 Vaccine
People with a history of “significant” allergic reactions have been told not to take the Pfizer/BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine after two National Health Service (NHS) workers who received the jab had “adverse” reactions. British medical officials confirmed that two staff members who were administered doses on Tuesday – on the first…
Read More »Russia Starts Mass COVID-19 Vaccination in Moscow with its Sputnik V Injection
The Sputnik V vaccine is the first on the market Moscow has begun distributing a Russian-made COVID-19 vaccine, marking Russia’s first mass immunisation effort against the disease. The city’s coronavirus task force said the Sputnik V COVID-19 shot would first be made available via 70 clinics to doctors and other…
Read More »Here Are the Side-effects: What It Feels Like To Get An mRNA Coronavirus Vaccine
As the UK begins distribution of the vaccine, and the United States inches closer to authorizing a Covid-19 vaccine many people may now let themselves start wondering what it will feel like to get it. Is it going to be like the flu vaccine? Will it be more painful? And…
Read More »How China Is Winning the COVID-19 Vaccine Race
How Beijing Positioned Itself as the Savior of the Developing World In 2020, China bungled its initial response to COVID-19. As a result, the disease spread around the world, crippling economies, killing more than 1.2 million people, and badly damaging Beijing’s image. In 2021, China plans to redeem itself by…
Read More »Under Pope Francis, The College Of Cardinals Has Become Less European
Unless his reign is short, a Roman Catholic pontiff will appoint most of the men who vote for his successor. But Pope Francis’ additions to the College of Cardinals since his election in 2013 also have served another purpose – tilting the leadership structure of the Roman Catholic Church away…
Read More »Americans Begin Getting COVID-19 Vaccine on December 11, as UN Seeks $4.2billion
António Guterres: “I am issuing an SOS for the needs of developing countries.” The UN Secretary-General has told a G20 summit that a global scheme to make COVID-19 vaccines and therapeutics affordable and accessible to anyone, anywhere, who needs them – is running short of money. The leaders who participated…
Read More »Experts Affirm Masks, Social Distancing Will Still be Needed After a Covid-19 Vaccine — Here’s Why
At a drive-through COVID-19 testing facility in Kigali Dr Anthony Fauci, the director of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, a global expert on COVID-19, warns “it’s not going to be a light switch” back to normalcy even when a Covid-19 vaccine becomes available to the public.…
Read More »Two Jails Battle COVID-19 Spread
Inside Mageragere prison in Kigali during new celebrations on December 31, 2019. The facility has nearly 12,000 inmates The Rwanda Correctional Services (RCS) and health officials are investigating how COVID-19 reached two jails yet visits have been banned since March. Mageragere prison in Kigali, a maximum security facility on Wednesday…
Read More »Government Agencies Relocate and Then Abandon Abuse Victim Whose Ears Were Cut Off
A woman whose abuse case gripped the nation in July is living, is living through more misery despite several government agencies claiming to have helped her to safety. RIB handed the victim Irene Uwimbabazi on this past Sunday to Ruhango district to be supported to recover from her horrific ordeal.…
Read More »Scientists Discover New Injection Acts Far Better to Prevent Spread of HIV to Women
Women will no longer need to swallow pills daily when the new injection comes on the market Researchers are stopping a study early after finding that a shot of an experimental medicine every two months worked better than daily pills to help prevent women from contracting HIV from an infected…
Read More »US Grants Full Approval for Use of Remdesivir as Covid-19 Treatment
It is the first medication to get US endorsement, meaning it will get to reach many regions The US Food and Drug Administration has approved remdesivir for the treatment of coronavirus infection, the drug’s maker, Gilead Sciences, said Thursday. It is the first drug to be approved for treating Covid-19.…
Read More »COVID-19 Virus Found in Ear of Dead Victims, Virus also Causing Loss of Hearing
There has not yet been a big study on how common it is for people who have had Covid-19 to experience hearing loss, but a few small studies point to a possible link. A team in England, UK, asked Covid-19 patients eight weeks after they’d been discharged from the hospital…
Read More »Rainy Season is Back, so is the Destruction that Comes With It
Scenes like these will be common occurrence for weeks In the past two days, dozens of homes have been destroyed in different parts of the country as heavy rain returns. The month of September usually marks the start of the annual rainy season. However, this year, many parts have yet…
Read More »Madagascar COVID-19 Drink, Other Herbal Treatments Endorsed for Trial by WHO
The herbal drink that Madagascar told the world it had invented to treat COVID-19 The World Health Organization has endorsed a protocol for testing African herbal medicines as potential treatments for the coronavirus and other epidemics. COVID-19 has raised the issue of using traditional medicines to battle contemporary diseases, and…
Read More »This Plant was Found ONLY in Rwanda, Not Anymore
Found only in Rwanda, and not anymore, the last remaining collection is in the UK Did you know there was a flower plant in Rwanda, which has never been found anywhere else? Well, a decision taken by government to provide much-needed water for an agricultural project, caused an unintended consequence;…
Read More »Oxford University Covid-19 Vaccine Trial Put on Hold After Adverse Reaction in Participant
The development of a promising Covid-19 vaccine has been put on hold due to a possible adverse reaction in a trial participant. A spokesman for AstraZeneca, the company working with a team from Oxford University, told the Guardian the trial has been stopped to review the “potentially unexplained illness” in…
Read More »Fact-Check: Do Corpses Spread COVID-19 as Had been Widely Believed?
A burial takes place late May of the first COVID-19 victim in Rwanda. As of this September 6, Rwanda has recorded a total of 19 death caused by the COVID-19 virus with their funerals conducted by medical teams wearing heavy personal protective equipment. Apart from the first death, no other…
Read More »Africa Will Get 220m Doses of First COVID-19 Vaccine – WHO
There are at least 120 vaccines against COVID-19 being developed from different countries including Kenya and Uganda. The race is on as to which country will have first vaccine. Russia already announced it has a vaccine The World Health Organization (WHO) has said that once a Covid-19 vaccine is approved,…
Read More »About 3% Population in Rwanda have been Tested for COVID-19
Exactly five months since the first COVID-19 case was reported, Rwanda has tested a relatively small portion of the population. Current estimates of the country’s total population by the National Institute of Statistics (NISR) puts the figure at 12,374,397. The first infection of the virus was reported on March 14.…
Read More »China says Chicken Wings Imported from Brazil Tested Positive for Covid-19
Chicken wings text positive for Covid-19 A sample of frozen chicken wings imported from Brazil has tested positive for the novel coronavirus in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen, authorities said Thursday, the latest in a series of reports of contaminated imported food products. The coronavirus was detected Wednesday on…
Read More »Coartem No Longer Treating Malaria in Rwanda – Study
Scientists in Rwanda have discovered a drug-resistant strain of the parasite that causes malaria, a development that will pose a threat to the country’s fight against the disease. The study was done by National Malaria Control Program of the Rwanda Biomedical Center (RBC), in collaboration with the Institut Pasteur, the…
Read More »It is Not Illegal to Sell or Buy Dog Meat – RIB
The three young men found with dog meat in Ruhango district will not be prosecuted, according to RIB An incident happened on Sunday August 2 which has raised renewed interest over what kind of meat Rwandans can get from their neighborhood market. Three young men were seen carrying large piece…
Read More »Businessman Committed Murder and is Free. Now Targets Wife of Victim for Speaking out
Widow Uwimbabazi Irene (R) is recovering at the Byimana Health Center after she was nearly drowned by people she identified. The goon were very likely hired by a local businessman who facing prosecution for murdering Uwimbabazi’s husband A mother of four is hospitalized in Southern Rwanda after hired goons nearly…
Read More »Businessman ‘Tortures’ Father of Four Who Later Died, RIB Investigator Buries Dossier
A photo from family album deceased Nzayisenga John. By going to local forest to cut wood, he hoped to bring home money, instead he returned battered, and died later – likely from wounds sustained An extended family in Ruhango district, Southern Rwanda, is grieving for a father of four with…
Read More »Rwanda Reaping Big From Sand Rivers And Irrigation Projects
In early 2000’s, Rwanda took an ambitious step to start the Land Husbandry, Water Harvesting and Hillside Irrigation Project and the Rural Sector Support Project (LWH-RSSP) to improve agricultural production and improve lives. The key aim of the projects is rural transformation through sustainable increase of agricultural productivity. The program involves…
Read More »How Prepared is Rwanda to Rollback COVID-19 Measures? Oxford University Says its Well Prepared
The Rwanda Defence Force last week received a variety of personal protective equipment from China for fighting Covid-19, worth about US$290,000 An Oxford University study has placed Rwanda among well prepared countries that qualify to rollback COVID-19 measures. The countries ranked in the top 10 on their preparedness were New…
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