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Uganda to Receive 175,200 More Covid-19 Vaccine Doses This Week

A doctor administering Astra-Zeneca Vaccine Dose (File Photo)

The Ministry of Health will this week receive more 175,200 doses of the Covid-19 vaccines, a donation from Italy.

According to the Ministry of Health’s senior Public Relations Officer, Emmanuel Ainebyoona, the vaccines will arrive in Uganda on Wednesday 16th June at 22:25 hrs.

The contingent will arrive at a time Uganda is battling the second wave of the pandemic, with skyrocketing Covid-19 cases on admission, and fatalities.

Uganda first received the Astra-Zeneca Vaccine donation of 864, 000 doses on 5th March 2021, a contingent that was donated from the Serum Institute of India, through the COVAX Facility.

This was later coupled with another donation of 100,000 vaccines by the Government of India.

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By press time, a total 786,160 Ugandans have been vaccinated against covid-19 using the AstraZeneca vaccine, this according to statistics from the health Ministry.

Catherine Ntabadde, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) communications specialist recently revealed that there’s a lot a possibility of receiving an additional donation of 688,000 doses of the AstraZeneca vaccine in August.

Last week on 10th June 2021, the World Health Organization listed Uganda among the 9 in 10 countries set to miss the urgent covid-19 vaccination goal.

According to the organization, the pandemic is trending upwards in 10 African countries, with four nations recording a spike in new cases of over 30% in the past seven days, compared with the previous week.

“72% of all new cases were reported in Egypt, South Africa, Tunisia, Uganda and Zambia and over half were recorded in nine southern African countries,” WHO noted.

The cumulative number of covid-19 cases in Uganda to-date stands at 63, 099, with 48,480 recoveries and 434 deaths.

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