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The African continent has suffered immensely from vaccine shortages, made worse by health infrastructure challenges and shortfalls in supplies from the global vaccine-sharing initiative, COVAX. However, we need to be more honest and appreciate that the problem is not only on the “supply side” but on the “demand side” of things as well. Whereas millions of Covid-19 vaccine doses have ...

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 ...

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 ...