Washington Gives Away Free Marijuana Joints To Promote COVID-19 Vaccination
Washington residents will get a complimentary joint of marijuana with their COVID-19 vaccine shot this week.
If you are a Washington resident, this might be your lucky week. Adults in the state will be able to claim a free joint when they get their coronavirus vaccine shot.
As ABS News reports, the campaign is called “Joints for Jabs” and is led by the Washington State Liquor and...
Uganda closes schools as coronavirus cases rise
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni has shut down schools and suspended public gatherings for a period of 42 days, as the country faces a surge of infections in a second Covid-19 wave.
Public transport between districts will be banned from Thursday onwards, to allow students who are in schools to return home.
Bars, cinemas and theatres have also been closed.
Dozens of schools had reported virus cases among...
Uganda Considering Second Lockdown As Cases Surge
The Ugandan government is considering a second Covid-19 lockdown to manage a sharp increase in new infections.
Health officials in the East African country say more contagious variants of the virus, especially from India, Nigeria, the UK and South Africa, are to blame for the increase in new cases.
Dr Diana Atwine of the health ministry said “some areas must be locked down unless people get...
Kenya to reshare 200,000 unused vaccines
Kenya's health ministry plans to redistribute at least 200,000 doses of unused Covid-19 vaccines.
The country's Health Minister Mutahi Kagwe says the vaccines would be taken to cities or counties where the uptake was high to prevent wastage.
"We cannot afford to have the jabs expire in our stores," Mr Kagwe said.
Kenya expects to record an average vaccine wastage rate of 10% or less.
Wastage may occur...
‘More than a million Moroccans arrested’ for Covid breaches
Moroccan media report that more than 1.5 million Moroccans have been arrested in the last nine months for not respecting the country's Covid-19 precautionary measures.
This translates to a rate of more than 5,700 people arrested every day during that timeframe, the privately owned 2M TV channel quoted Deputy Interior Minister Noureddine Boutayeb as saying on Monday.
"Although this number seems large, it indicates a great...
