MOH to update on Covid
The Minister for Health, Dr. Jane Ruth Acheng, will on Wednesday afternoon update the country on the current COVID-19 situation and vaccination coverage.
This address comes as the country has embarked on mass COVID-19 vaccination following the arrival of various vaccines in recent months. Uganda has so far procured nine million Johnson and Johnson single-dose vaccines through the African Union (AU) at Shs 290 billion. The first batch of 196,800 doses arrived last week.
In September, 1,674,270 doses of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines entered the country as a donation from the United States government. This was combined with the September 6 delivery of 647,080 Moderna doses, bringing the total to 2,321,350 COVID-19 vaccine doses to Uganda.
Uganda has also been a beneficiary of 5,690,363 vaccine donations of AstraZeneca, Sinovac, Moderna, Pfizer, and now Johnson and Johnson from other countries under the global vaccine sharing facility, Covax. The countries include the UK, India, France, Norway, China and the United States.
MOH to update on Covid
Of these donations, 2,282,414 doses have been administered while 2,080,594 are currently being distributed countrywide. Of the administered doses, 1,704,279 people have received their 1st dose and 578,135 people have got their 2nd dose.
Uganda is targeting to fully vaccinate 4.8 million persons by December 2021 and 21 million others by the end of 2022.
Targeted groups include health workers, security operatives, the elderly, and those that live with pre-existing conditions that lower their immunity.
Results of COVID-19 tests done on October 10, 2021 confirm 72 new cases. The cumulative confirmed cases are 124,808.
