Gov’t calls for mandatory vaccination of Ugandans
Government officials are pushing for compulsory vaccination of front-line workers to protect them from coronavirus-related death and quicken attainment of the goal of returning society...
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We are monitoring side-effects of AstraZeneca – ministry of Health
The Ministry of Health’s Director for Health Services, Dr Henry G. Mwebesa has said that they have set up a team to monitor the side...
Health Ministry seeks for 593 billion to purchase more COVID-19 vaccines doses
The Minister for Health Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng has said that the ministry will need 162 million USD which is equivalent to Shs. 593 billion...
Government ready to start COVID-19 Vaccination exercise
All is set for Uganda to start immunization against Covid – 19 on Wednesday 10th March 2021 and all Ugandans will be required to produce...
UNBS and NDA warn local soft drink-manufacturing companies
Standards bodies in the country, the Uganda National Bureau of Standards (UNBS) and National Drug Authority (NDA), have issued a warning to local companies that...
Election loss has Anite take back ambulance from Koboko Residents
State minister for Investment and Privatisation, Evelyn Anite, has withdrawn the ambulance she had donated to residents of Koboko Municipality after losing in the recently...
Kenya to be first East African country to receive COVID-19 vaccine
East Africa’s Kenya is expected to receive 24 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Astrazeneca and Oxford University next month according to Reuters...
New study finds Pfizer’s COVID Vaccine effective against coronavirus mutation
The United States has got some good news as new report finds that the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is effective against a key mutation found in the...
Government helps the Chinese community in Uganda import 4000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine
The Government of Uganda has entered an arrangement with the Republic of China to help in the importation of the COVID-19 vaccine.However, the vaccine will...
The U.K. approves Pfizer’s vaccine, becoming the first nation in the West to do so
Britain gave emergency approval on Wednesday to Pfizer’s American-developed coronavirus vaccine, leaping ahead of the United States to become the first Western country to allow its health...
