Persons vaccinated using the the Johnson and Johnson COVID-19 vaccine might need to get a booster dose so as to get 100 percent protection against severe disease according to findings from Phase III trials. The trials that were carried out by the manufacturers of the vaccine show that the single-dose vaccine provides strong and long…
Mityana Hospital will have to wait longer as the Ministry of Health seeks to recruit a contractor to repair the non-functioning dilapidated X-ray and Ultra Sound machines, three years since they broke down. The hospital was rehabilitated in 2010 and commissioned early this year but has been operating without an X-ray and Ultra Sound…
Uganda has received a consignment of more than 1.6 million doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine thanks to a donation by the United States government. This is the second consignment of COVID-19 vaccines that the Biden administration has sent to Uganda. The first, which arrived on September 6, comprised 647,080 doses of Moderna, bringing to…