Daily Monitor
Friday March 05 2021
A vial containing the Covid-19 vaccine by AstraZeneca at the Robert Bosch hospital in Stuttgart, Germany. Uganda will receive the first consignment of Covid-19 donations today. PHOTO/AFP
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Dr Ruth Jane Aceng, the Health minister, said the doses are enough for the first dose for all teachers.
On Tuesday, Dr Aceng said they had commenced training of vaccinators.
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Uganda will receive its first consignment of Covid-19 donations from COVAX Facility, a UN agency, today at 2.55pm, the Health ministry has said.
Dr Diana Atwine, the permanent secretary at the Ministry of Health, in a telephone interview yesterday said the ministry would receive 864,000 doses of AstraZeneca vaccines and hand them over to National Medical Stores (NMS).