By Ben Musanje Days after President Yoweri Museveni has just rebuked Uganda’s security forces for using excessive violence, the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Martin Okoth Ochola has admitted that some elements in the force still use torture to extract information from suspects. In a televised address on Saturday, Museveni publicly slammed security forces for using torture…
Cote d’Ivoire has launched Ebola vaccination of high-risk populations, including health workers and first responders in Abidjan, where an Ebola outbreak was declared on 14 August. The country was able to swiftly begin the vaccination on 16 August with the rVSV-ZEBOV Ebola vaccine manufactured by Merck as the vaccine doses that the World Health Organization…
By Joseph Kato Two days after president, Yoweri Museveni, addressed the country condemning inhumane actions of individual security personnel, Uganda Police Force- UPF, Uganda People’s Defence Forces- UPDF and Uganda Prisons Service- UPS have pledged to get tougher on their own officers perpetrating the crimes. Museveni, in his Saturday address expressed dissatisfaction to the conduct…
The Ministry of health is considering allocating the Sinovac vaccines donated from China to the business community. The country at the moment has a total of 300,000 doses that were donated by the People’s Republic of China and the government wants to give them to groups of people in banks, companies and organizations that might…
The Ministry of Education and Sports and the Health Ministry have clashed over who should be vaccinated in the education sector as the country looks at reopening of educational institutions. Over 15 million learners in Uganda are stuck at home due to school closures that was enforced as a measure against the spread of COVID-19. …
The Serum Institute, the official manufacturer of the COVISHIELD brand of Astrazeneca vaccine has confirmed to the World Health Organisation (WHO) that the products they alerted them about in July and August were indeed falsified. In its latest statement, WHO says that the fake vaccines were reported at patient level in Uganda and India. “Genuine COVISHIELD vaccine is…
COVID-19 new infections will average at 179 per day this week, according to the latest projections released by the National Planning Authority (NPA) on Monday afternoon. Attributing this to the easing of the lockdown especially on public transport which has now made it possible for people to move across district borders, the report signed by…