The Ministry of Health still has 13.4 million unutilized COVID-19 vaccines, the Public Accounts Committee – PAC Central Government has learned. The Health Ministry Permanent Secretary, Dr. Diana Atwine, says that the country risks losing huge sums of money that was used to procure the vaccines if they expire without being utilized. Some of the vaccines are scheduled…
Experts have said the speed at which the coronavirus is mutating giving rise to new and more transmissible variants is very worrying. This they say could soon render vaccines currently in circulation useless if nothing is done to improve them. Rachel Achilla, a technical officer Laboratory, Emergency, Preparedness, and Response Program at the WHO Regional…
Travellers moving in and out of Uganda, are no longer required to have a COVID-19 PCR(polymerase chain reaction) test, as long as they are fully vaccinated. The requirement still stands for those who are not vaccinated as well as those who took only a single jab of the COVID-19 vaccine. The waiver was announced by…
The Government procured 3.4 Million covid-19 vaccines, this is according to records from the Ministry of Health. A total of 44,734,030 vaccines were received, but 3.4 million were procured using gov’t funds. The remaining 41 million doses of vaccines were donations from the United States, Norway, Japan, Britain, China, and Denmark among others. According to…
The Ministries of Health and Education have resorted to vaccinating learners as the best way to control the spread of COVID-19 in learning institutions due to non-compliance by schools to feed data into the school surveillance system. Prior to the re-opening of schools, the government drafted guidelines aimed at creating safe environments for schools amidst…
The mass COVID-19 vaccination campaign in several parts of Amuru District has suffered a setback because of the start of the new farming season, health officials have disclosed. According to the health officials, the most eligible people who are predominantly farmers have shunned the vaccination exercise to attend to their garden work following the return…
The public will be required to present proof of full vaccination to access transport services effective at the end of March. Addressing journalists at the Media Centre on Friday, the Minister for Health Ruth Aceng said that all passengers aged 18 years and above will have to present Covid-19 vaccination cards indicating full dosage before…
Kabarole District and Fort Portal city authorities have resolved to establish COVID-19 vaccination centers at every police checkpoint on major roads leading to and out of the city and the district. The decision is aimed at ensuring that unvaccinated people get the COVID-19 jab as one of the containment measures. Kabarole Resident District Commissioner, Julian Ayesiga…
The Ministry of Health is concerned about the low response of elderly persons in the ongoing vaccination campaign against Covid-19 disease, Doctor Allan Muruta, the Commissioner for Integrated Epidemiology and Surveillance services has indicated. In March this year, the Ministry of Health launched a voluntary Covid-19 vaccination campaign, giving priority to highly at risk populations…
Health Rights activists have blasted Uganda Human Rights Commission-UHRC for downplaying the right of Ugandans to reject vaccination. It comes a day after the Commission Chairperson, Mariam Wangadya, said that Ugandans have no right to reject the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination exercise during a press conference ahead of the International Human Rights Day held annually on December…