Health

The World Health Organization (WHO) has requested that Africa receives 20 million vaccine doses for covid-19. This is to ensure that those who received their first dose also get the second dosage as the cases have drastically risen by 13% In the past three weeks, cases of the coronavirus have been decreasing steadily in Africa, however, there are reports of ...

As fear of another lockdown looms amongst Ugandans, the Ministry of Health has announced how Covid-19 has surged in schools. While speaking to the media yesterday, Dr Henry Mwebesa the director-general of health services urged schools to report all cases of covid 19 detected. “As of 18th May, that’s about a week ago a total of 29 schools from 17 ...

The demand for the covid vaccine has increased after the ministry of health sighted an increase in the covid cases. People have been going for this jab but not in large numbers as recently. All the places where the vaccine is available are now full to capacity. What does this say about Ugandans? Some people on social media are insinuating ...

The government, on Friday, opened the second round of AstraZeneca vaccine to all Ugandans who received the first jab. This is, however, eligible for those that received the first jab over eight weeks ago. Health Minister Jane Ruth Aceng received her second jab yesterday and after that, she addressed the press. During the interview, she revealed that some frequent travellers ...

Hospitals in Uganda have started running out of the covid-19 vaccines. Statistics showed that by last month; only 16% of the health workers had been vaccinated. At first, people were reluctant to go for the Covid-19 vaccination, especially the frontline workers. However, hospitals have now started running out of the covid-19 vaccines. Should we then see this as a good ...