May 26, 2021 A nurse vaccinating a man against coronavirus in Kabale recently
Vaccination shields “all people at risk” from getting any virus or disease. Vaccination has been used widely over the years to shield people from measles, polio and whooping cough, among others. All this starts from just a few weeks old.
But that aside, we now have Covid-19. In Uganda, Covid-19 vaccinations began on March 10, 2021 after the country got over 946,000 doses of the Oxford AstraZeneca vaccine. The campaign got off to a slow start as Ugandan skepticism over the vaccine efficacy was reinforced by swirling reports at the time, of the vaccine causing blood clots in some people.
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