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The Central Region Women’s 10s were hosted by Avengers at the Busambaga grounds in Entebbe with a total of 8 teams taking part. The Black Pearls suffered their first loss to a determined Avengers side during the final leg of the URU Central Women’s 10s. Despite the loss, Black Pearls were crowned overall Central region Champions while Avengers were the third leg winners.

We were graced by the presence of MP Elect of Entebbe Municipality Hon. Michael Kakembo aka Mbwatekamwa who appreciated the teams for exhibiting sportsmanship during and after the tournaments. &#8220;I’m very happy to have got the chance to watch women’s rugby in my area and I pledge to support the efforts of all stakeholders ensuring that this game is played well and safely.&#8221; -Hon Michael Kakembo. He also noted that he is aware of the land grabbers who plan to take the land where the rugby ground is and promised to protect the sport at all costs.
Blue Whales emerged overall Champions of the Tier B central women’s 10s while Black Diamonds were the third leg winners of Tier B.
The Eastern region final circuit was concluded with an awards ceremony for the most valued players, upcoming players and the overall regional winner. Mbale Eagles were crowned overall winners of the Eastern Regional women’s 10s. Nabalayo Christine of Nyondo (MVP round 2),Namalemba Habiba of Bumageni(MVP round 3),Gamisa Mariam of Mbale Eagles(upcoming player round 1),Ngiro Patricia(upcoming player round 2) and Nambuya Sandra of Nyondo were the other awardees of the day.
The Northern region will have their final circuit in Gulu hosted by Gulu Sprinters on 8th May 2021. Lira Matrix, Aduku Tigers, Kitgum Queens and Gulu Sprinters are the teams that will take part in this circuit.
Central Region Awards: MVP Tier B- Nakato Mary of Black Diamonds RFC MVP Tier A- Peace Lekuru of Avengers Winner Round 3 Tier B- Black Diamonds Winner Round 3 Tier A-Avengers Central Region champions Tier A &#8211; Black Pearls Central Region Champions Tier B-Blue Whales
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New Cases: 5 Total Confirmed: 4,062 Deaths: 79 Recovered: 3,078 Total in quarantine: 60 Discharged from quarantine: 14,775
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Health-care providers and patients have suffered through thousands of attacks on health care systems in the roughly five years since the U.N. Security Council demanded an end to impunity for such attacks, according to data recorded by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in countries affected by conflict and other emergencies.

The attacks faced by health-care workers, the wounded and the sick included murder, rape, physical abuse, looting and the destruction of medical facilities and medical transport vehicles. Obstruction of health care services – such as a vaccination campaign prevented from doing its work or an ambulance prevented from passing a check-point – were also tabulated.
The ICRC counted 3,780 attacks in an average of 33 countries per year between 2016 and 2020, with two-thirds of the attacks and incidents recorded in Africa and the Middle East. The countries with the most incidents recorded by the ICRC include Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Israel and the occupied territories, and Syria. Due to the challenge of collecting such data in conflict zones, the ICRC’s overall figure likely represents an undercount of the true number of attacks.
“The world has failed to make protecting the sick, the dying and injured a priority. Health care is at the forefront of current global attention, yet not enough is being done to protect health care workers and medical facilities,” said ICRC President Peter Maurer. “Sadly, with each attack, more people are prevented from seeking out the health care they desperately need. Weapon bearers must respect the universal value of and right to health care enshrined in international humanitarian law.”
On May 3, 2016, the U.N. Security Council adopted its first resolution on the protection of health care in conflict. Resolution 2286, supported by 80 states, included steps states could take to mitigate such attacks. Five years on, access to health care continues to be impeded due to a disregard for international humanitarian law and obstruction or criminalization of the provision of health care in some cases. Additionally, implementation of measures laid out in the resolution has been weak.
“There is a lack of political will and a crisis of imagination when it comes to protecting health-care providers and patients. States wishing to see this agenda advance should lead by example,” said Maciej Polkowski, the head of ICRC’s Health Care in Danger Initiative, which seeks to ensure safe access to health care in armed conflict and other emergencies.
Efforts to reduce violence in health care facilities do work. The ICRC partnered with hospital administrators in a South Asian country to reduce the number of guns carried into the emergency room. After five months of the program’s implementation, the number of guns intercepted before being brought into the ward increased from two to 42 per month, reducing risk for staff and patients.
Other positive examples include:
In El Salvador: The ICRC and the Salvadorean Red Cross Society brought together actors involved in the emergency medical response to victims of armed violence, resulting in improved coordination and an increase in healthcare workers’ skill levels.
In Lebanon: In Ein el Helweh, a densely populated Palestinian refugee camp where several armed groups operate, the ICRC was able to get several armed actors to sign unilateral declarations of respect for health care systems and practitioners. The text of the declarations was developed jointly with the groups based on an ICRC template and some positive changes were immediately noticed.
Over the last year, the COVID-19 pandemic has further underscored the importance of protecting health care and health-care workers, both because of how crucial health workers are for societies, but also because new patterns of violence and stigmatization emerged. From February to July 2020, the ICRC recorded 611 violent incidents against health-care workers, patients and medical infrastructure associated with the COVID-19 response, about 50 percent higher than average.
To share just one example, in a rural health centre in southeastern Colombia, an armed group threatened a doctor who treated a COVID-19 patient who died. Those threats forced the doctor to move regions, depriving residents of care.
Violent attacks are harrowing for both patients and staff. Filippo Gatti was working as a pediatric nurse on an ICRC medical team in South Sudan when a fighter burst into the operating theatre and pointed an AK-47 assault rifle at his face, demanding to know if an enemy fighter was being helped.
“I took him to the door and showed him a woman on the operating table, a stroke of luck,” said Mr Gatti, now ICRC’s chief nurse. “And he said, ‘You have to leave. We are coming back and will kill everyone.’ We moved and discharged the people we could, but indeed they returned and killed 12 bed-ridden patients, one of the most horrific cases of violence you can imagine.
“This group was not really thinking about the fact that we were there to treat everyone and anyone, white, red, blue, government or not government. At a certain point it will also be your turn in need of medical care.”

About ICRC’s health-care attacks data: The data concerning events affecting the delivery of health care was collected from January 2016 through December 2020 by ICRC teams in an average of 33 countries per year where the ICRC has an operational presence, meaning countries experiencing conflict or violence. The data is not meant to be exhaustive but rather representative of what the ICRC sees in locations it works. Because such data collection is often quite challenging, the data is likely an undercount of the true number of attacks and cases of obstruction.
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Digital innovation is vital for the advancement of African economies and their health services, but to make this possible certain large stumbling blocks need to be removed.

This was the consensus amongst high level global and African health experts who came together for a recent online discussion co-hosted by the Africa Health Alliance (AHA) and USA Healthcare Alliance (USAHA) on promoting healthcare infrastructure and bridging the digital divide in Africa. Major challenges discussed included lacking broadband infrastructure, a shortage of digitised data for actionable systemic insights, and inadequate long-term investing and political support for innovative health technologies from Africa.

Three of the participants, Microsoft (www.Microsoft.com/en-za), BroadReach Group (https://BroadReachcorporation.com) and access.mobile International (www.AccessMobile.io), shared their experiences in successfully partnering with each other and with other roleplayers to solve complex healthcare challenges at scale on the continent.

It was agreed that the COVID-19 pandemic presented a rare window of opportunity for Africa’s health sector to come to terms with many long-time systemic challenges and to use their newfound momentum to mobilise vital role players, technology, available funding, and improved ways of working, to solve more than just the pandemic for the long term.

“I like to use the analogy of the elephant and cheetah,” said Dr Ernest Darkoh, BroadReach Group co-founder, World Economic Forum’s Schwab Foundation board member and TIME Health Hero. “The private sector has the speed and agility of the cheetah and governments the strength of the elephant. When the road is cluttered with rocks, you need the might of the elephant to clear the way so that the cheetah can get through.” Examples of such public-private partnerships included the sourcing of broadband or laptops for rural clinic staff.

“It is time to partner the cheetah and the elephant and it is time to scale. It is time to put our money where our mouths are and invest in scalable systems &#8211; our lives literally depend on it. COVID is a watershed moment that has made us realise we need to start doing things differently. We can’t approach this in the same way that we’ve approached other things that have taken so long to gain acceptance,” said Darkoh, referring to Africa’s longtime fights against malaria, TB and HIV.

“Technology has the power to improve health outcomes, specifically access to care, quality of care, and patient and provider experience, so that you can remove waste and improve efficiency of care,” said Dr David Rhew, global chief medical officer at Microsoft.

Rhew, who is also an infectious diseases doctor, technologist and researcher on how technology can be used to improve public health outcomes, said Microsoft provided healthcare support around the globe and in Africa, both in the clinical realm of electronic health records and with digital technologies that consumers and patients used. One of its most recent innovations is an artificial intelligence (AI) powered “COVID-bot” to help triage patients. Microsoft noticed however that they always came up against the same challenges: the lack of streamlined communications and broadband access.

It was for this reason that Microsoft got involved in providing broadband access through technologies such as TV white space (unused spectrum that can be used to transmit WiFi). They have also worked with BroadReach on its AI-based health data platform Vantage, and mass mobile communications partner access.mobile to assist governments and regions with large scale interventions for more equitable healthcare provision to large, vulnerable and hard-to-reach populations.

Governments such as South Africa’s conducted extensive door-to-door screening campaigns at the beginning of the pandemic to find out people’s ages and comorbidities. In partnership with provincial governments, BroadReach also gathered screening data including valuable granular details such as the geolocation, household information and categorisation of patients. Darkoh explained that the challenge was that scalable solutions were not always in place at a broader systemic level for decision-makers to use this data effectively.

To solve such challenges, it was important to remember that you did not have to reinvent the wheel, said Darkoh. The private sector, digital innovators and different government departments already had many of the health technology solutions that governments were now seeking &#8211; the key was to open up opportunities for information sharing, collaboration, procurement and interoperability of existing systems.

“For many African innovators there is no path to market and the prospect of being contracted by the government is unrealistic &#8211; they can’t even have those conversations with their governments to support their technology. We need to elevate the conversation back to the political will level, for example to make decisions such as ‘let’s get every clinic connected to the grid for electricity and WiFi.’ There are some big rocks we need to move. Let’s run the health system the same way we do the central banks: independent of the election cycle or which political party is in power, on a ten year timeframe to get things done.”

This sentiment was echoed by Kaakpema &#8220;KP&#8221; Yelpaala, Chairman and Founder of access.mobile International (www.AccessMobile.io/about-us), an organisation with the mission to use digital communication channels to improve access to health services and to support positive behaviour change in the healthcare space. The company has worked at scale in 13 countries across West, East and Southern Africa since being founded in 2011.

“Every African country you go to you will find incredible digital health innovation. As Ernest mentioned, the problem is they are not scaling and the barrier that is driving that digital divide is an infrastructure one,” Yelpaala said.

Yelpaala also believed another key solution for the divide was to bring on board “investors with a long-term view on returns”.

Opportunities needed to be viewed in the context of the generational shift currently happening in Africa. “The population is young and this always presented us with a bit of a conundrum. Young people were active digital innovators and consumers, but tended to be healthy and to not seek out health information. This is changing with the pandemic. We are in Generation One of digital health adoption on the continent. As Gen One ages and the generation behind them start adopting digital health, at that point we’ll see it starting to exponentiate. It’s really frankly just a matter of time.”

Yelpaala believed digital innovation was “going to be one of the key pathways to how African economies and health services are going to be transformed” and that African innovations would be used in other parts of the world. This could be made possible through strong public-private partnerships and investment in the already impressive digital innovation that existed in Africa, he said.
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New Cases: 3 Total Confirmed: 4,057 Deaths: 79 Recovered: 3,076 Total in quarantine: 60 Discharged from quarantine: 14,775
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National Aviation Services (NAS) (www.NAS.aero), the leading airport services provider in the emerging markets has renewed its contract with the Aqaba Development Corporation (ADC) and Aqaba Airports Company (AAC) to operate and manage Aqaba Air Cargo Terminal (AACT) for another 20 years. Aqaba with its strategic location and status as Jordan’s special economic zone is a regional hub for trade, tourism and culture. The air cargo terminal, located within the King Hussein International Airport has been key to Aqaba’s logistics capabilities since its establishment in 2004.

As the exclusive cargo services provider, NAS has been the driving force at AACT since 2006, providing world class services including ground operations, cargo handling, warehousing services, bonded storage, safety and security services as well as ground equipment. The company introduced an advanced cargo management system to comprehensively manage every aspect of the cargo business ranging from pricing, cargo operations and billing to supply chain management. NAS also invested in the modernization of the cargo services by automating processes and providing transparency and tracking services to customers, which greatly supports import and export in the country.

Hassan El-Houry, Group CEO of NAS said, “We are excited to renew our contract and serve the Aqaba Air Cargo Terminal for another 20 years. In the last term, we fulfilled our commitment to the country by maintaining the highest levels of service with a strong focus on safety and security while investing into the development and operations of air cargo services. This helped unlock Aqaba’s air cargo potential and put Jordan on the global map for trade in line with the Royal vision to transform Aqaba into a world-class business hub and leisure destination. We also offered a platform for export growth that was sustained by His Majesty King Abdullah II’s leadership as a driver for international trade and job creation. With the renewed agreement we aim to further enhance the air cargo offering in the country and introduce new initiatives in the near future.”

In 2020, NAS also successfully completed the Regulated Agent third country validation process (RA3) for air cargo operations in Aqaba. This internationally recognized validation and certification process ensures EU regulatory compliance for air cargo transportation to EU countries. The validation demonstrates NAS’s compliance with EU air cargo security regulations and standards, including access control, cargo screenings, external and internal audits, among others.
El-Houry highlighted, &#8220;Jordan&#39;s economic environment is favorable to foreign investment. With NAS&#39;s investments into Jordan&#39;s aviation industry, we also remain committed to growing the country&#39;s economic prosperity in the coming years.&#8221;
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About National Aviation Services (NAS): National Aviation Services (NAS) is the fastest growing aviation services provider in the emerging markets.
Established in 2003, NAS quickly transformed from a Kuwait based ground handling company into an emerging markets leader in the industry. NAS is present in over 50 airports across the Middle East, Africa and Asia, handling seven of the world’s top 10 airlines and managing more than 50 airport lounges.
With an employee base of over 8,000 capable and experienced employees at the core of its worldwide network, NAS is committed to providing aviation services that benchmark to the best in the world.
The NAS portfolio of services includes ramp and passenger services, cargo management, engineering and line maintenance, airport technologies, fixed base operations, terminal management, aviation training, travel solutions, lounge management and meet-and-assist packages.
Affiliated with leading industry organizations, NAS follows international aviation standards with certifications from ISO, EMS, RA3 and OHSAS practices. NAS is one of the first ground handlers in the world to obtain the IATA’s Safety Audit for Ground Operations (ISAGO) certification illustrating the company’s commitment to providing high quality services, with a focus on safety and security.
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Daily: Laboratory test: 3,605 Cases: 620 Severe cases: 912 New deaths: 21 Recovery: 1,286

Total: Laboratory test: 2,584,305 Active cases: 54,203 Total cases: 258,062 Total deaths: 3,709 Total recovery: 200,148 Total vaccinated: 1,134,885
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The Basketball Africa League today unveiled the three groups of four for the 12 teams that will compete in the inaugural season. During this stage, each team will face the other three teams in the group once.
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Total cases: 25,225 (+109) Recovered: 23,345 (+111) | 92.8% Active cases: 1,545 In critical condition: 2 Tests: 1,316,968 (+3,478) Test positivity rate: 3.1% Vaccinated: 350,003 (+131) Deaths: 335 (+0) | 1.3%
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Total daily tests: 788 New confirmed cases: 0 Cumulative confirmed cases: 18,458 Active cases: 39 Recoveries: 17,748 (5 new) Currently admitted: 5 New deaths: 0 Total deaths: 671 Total vaccinated to date: 35,227
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As at 01 May 2021, Zimbabwe had 38 260 confirmed cases, including 35 620 recoveries and 1 568 deaths. To date, a total of 428 135 people have been vaccinated against COVID-19.
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Malawi has registered 17 new COVID-19 cases, 13 new recoveries and no new deaths. Of the new cases, 15 are locally transmitted: seven from Blantyre, five from Lilongwe, two from Mzimba North, and one from Neno Districts while two cases are imported and both are in Lilongwe (travelled from India). No new deaths were registered.

Cumulatively, Malawi has recorded 34,095 cases including 1,148 deaths (Case Fatality Rate is at 3.37%). Of these cases, 2,162 are imported infections and 31,933 are locally transmitted. Cumulatively, 32,064 cases have now recovered (recovery rate of 94%) and 134 were lost to follow-up. This brings the total number of active cases to 749. There were no new admissions in the treatment units while four cases were discharged. A total of seven active cases are hospitalised: four in Lilongwe, two in Blantyre, and one in Mzimba North Districts. On testing, 791 COVID-19 tests were conducted. Of these, 453 tests were through SARS-CoV-2 Antigen Rapid Diagnostic test while the rest were through RT-PCR. The positive cases out of the total translates to a positivity rate of 2.2% while a weekly positivity rate (seven days moving average) is at 2.9%. Cumulatively, 233,149 tests have been conducted in the country so far. On COVID-19 vaccination, cumulatively 300,766 doses have been administered in the country with 4,629 being administered in 24 hours.

The data indicates an increase in the recovery rate (now at 94%), a downward trend in the positivity rate (the seven days moving average is at 2.9%) and a decline in the number of admissions. This gives us hope in the fight against COVID-19, however the same data shows that we are still reporting new confirmed cases on a daily basis. This means that there is still community transmission of the disease in our midst but sadly, we have observed that some people have relaxed and are not practicing the COVID-19 preventive and containment measures. Let me remind everyone that other countries are observing a surge in the number of new cases, admissions and deaths, this is posing a risk of third wave across the globe. It is important that we sustain the gains we have made so far and ensure that we supress the transmission even further by strictly adhering to the COVID-19 preventive and containment measures. Let me emphasize that the low figures being reported now should not make us to relax. In order to suppress and reduce the spread of the disease in our midst, we must strictly adhere to the preventive measures and get the COVID-19 vaccine.

Vaccinations have been the biggest public health intervention that has prevented the highest number of deaths and it has been used to eradicate diseases such as smallpox and polio. Let me emphasize that regardless of being vaccinated or not let us all strictly adhere to the COVID-19 preventive and containment measures. This calls for enhanced preventive and containment measures that; 1. Promote social/physical distancing to keep ourselves and others safe, 2. promote frequent hand washing with soap to keep our hands clean all the time, 3. reduce spreading of the virus by wearing face masks properly and coughing appropriately

Let me remind everyone to avoid unnecessary travel at this time and if you have to please adhere to all the measures.

No one is safe until everyone else is safe. Get Vaccinated. Protect yourself. Protect your loved ones. Protect everyone. Call toll free 929.

Hon. Khumbize Kandodo Chiponda, MP MINISTER OF HEALTH CO-CHAIRPERSON – PRESIDENTIAL TASKFORC

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735 people have tested positive to the disease, from a sample size of 5,758 tested in the last 24 hrs. Our positivity rate is at 12.8%. 634 are Kenyans while 101 are foreigners. 429 are males &#038; 306 are females. The youngest is 8 months &#038; the oldest is 97 years.

Total confirmed positive cases are now 160,053 and cumulative tests so far conducted are 1,675, 310.
County distribution: Nairobi 175, Mombasa 61, Uasin Gishu 49, Kisumu 36, Siaya 34, Nyeri and Nandi 33 cases each, Kakamega 30, Makueni 25, Nakuru 24, Bungoma 23, Kiambu 21, Kilifi 20, Migori and Busia 15 cases each, Isiolo 14, Narok 13, Garissa, Meru and Kitui 12 cases each, Machakos 11, Bomet 8, Kericho 7, Trans Nzoia and Laikipia 6 cases each, Baringo and Murang’a 5 cases each, Elgeyo Marakwet, Taita Taveta, Marsabit, Homa Bay and Kajiado 4 cases each, Vihiga and Embu 3 cases each, Kisii 2, Tharaka Nithi and Samburu 1 case each.
224 patients have recovered from the disease, 177 from Home Based &#038; Isolation Care, while 47 are from various health facilities countrywide. Total recoveries now stand at 108,789 of which 79,234 are from Home Based Care &#038; Isolation while 29,555 are from various health facilities.
20 deaths have been reported, 3 of them occurred in 24 hours, 13 on diverse dates within the last one month &#038; 4 are late death reports from facility record audits. This now pushes cumulative fatalities to 2,744.
A total of 1,304 patients are admitted in various health facilities countrywide, while 6,648 patients are on Home Based Isolation and Care. 188 patients are in the ICU, 31 of whom are on ventilatory support and 113 on supplemental oxygen. 44 patients are on observation.
Another 137 patients are separately on supplemental oxygen with 130 of them in general wards and 7 in High Dependency Units (HDU).
VACCINATION UPDATE: A total of 884,858 persons have so far been vaccinated against the COVID-19 disease countrywide. Of these 515,288 are aged 58 years and above together with others, Health workers are 157,967, Teachers 137,348 while Security Officers 74,272.
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COVID-19 Nigeria update as at 1st May, 2021
43 new cases of COVID19 Nigeria;
Lagos-28 FCT-4 Rivers-4 Ekiti-2 Kaduna-2 Ogun-2 Bauchi-1
165,153 confirmed 155,109 discharged 2,063 death
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New Cases: 1 Total Confirmed: 4,054 Deaths: 79 Recovered: 3,076 Total in quarantine: 60 Discharged from quarantine: 14,775
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Newly confirmed cases: 303 Recoveries: 217 Active cases: 1762 Death: 1
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Total cases: 25,116 (+121) Recovered: 23,234 (+28) | 92.8% Active cases: 1,547 In critical condition: 3 Tests: 1,313,490 (+4,868) Test positivity rate: 2.5% Vaccinated: 349,871 (+169) Deaths: 335 (+2) | 1.3%
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