UGANDA ORDERS 9 MILLION DOSES OF COVID-19 VACCINE
The Ugandan Government has ordered nine million doses of the Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
This comes amid surging infections in the country with over 25,000 cases.
The Ugandan Health Ministry on Thursday, December 10, said in a statement that it opted for the Astrazeneca vaccines instead of the Pfizer jabs, adding that it would cover 20 percent of the country’s total population of 45 million people.
“Plans are underway to secure additional doses of the vaccine to cover more people,’’ the ministry said.
The Government noted that it had applied through the GAVI Alliance (Global Alliances for Vaccines and Immunisation) to secure the Astrazeneca COVID-19 vaccine.
The Ministry also warned that the COVID-19 situation in the country is getting worse, urging all residents to follow all preventive protocols.
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On Wednesday, the nation registered 1,199 new cases of COVID-19, the highest ever daily increase since the novel coronavirus outbreak nine months ago, bringing the total number of infections in the country to 25,059.
Recall that Eons Intelligence reported on Thursday that Nigeria and other African countries would get access to COVID-19 vaccines from January through to the first quarter of 2021.
The UK has begun administering the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine while the Israeli Government received its first batch of the vaccine on Wednesday.
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