Tag Archives: COVID-19

  Moroto, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Education authorities in Moroto district are unable to trace 324 primary six pupils who failed to turn up for studies in March 2021. Joseph Aleper, the Moroto District Inspector of Schools, says that they registered 986 pupils across the district before the COVID-19 lockdown …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  Researchers at the University of Oxford have reported that the risk of the rare blood clotting known as cerebral venous thrombosis (CVT) following COVID-19 infection is around 100 times greater than normal, several times higher than it is after vaccination or following influenza. The study …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The second wave of COVID-19 in Uganda has begun, according to scientists. Scientists say the wave begun last week and has so far been characterized by an increase in reported cases of the disease. In the last week of March and the first week of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Director of Makerere University Hospital, Prof. Josephat Byamugisha has said they are not struggling with the uptake of the Covid-19 vaccination. The Covid-19 vaccination point based at Makerere University hospital had depleted all its stocks in slightly more than a week as most of other …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Authorities in Health and Education ministries are seemingly in support of mandatory COVID-19 vaccination of teachers and other frontline workers. While the government had initially said that COVID-19 vaccination is not compulsory and subject to consent since the vaccines are new and have never been used …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Uganda Private Teachers Union has petitioned parliament over the 20 Billion Shillings pledged to private teachers to help them recover from the effects of the covid-19 outbreak. In July 2020, President Museveni pledged 20 Billion Shillings to support teachers in private schools who were …

They have changed the game and vaccines will not be enough. Susan Michie, Professor of Health Psychology and Director of the UCL Centre for Behaviour Change, UCL, and other members of the Lancet COVID-19 Commission Taskforce on Public Health explain why the world now needs global ‘maximum suppression’. At the …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Ministry of Finance has unveiled a new Medium-Term Debt Management Strategy (MTDS), aimed at ensuring value for money from the loans that are being borrowed for the next financial year.  The plan specifies how the government plans to structure its debt portfolio in the …

WHO assures availability of vaccine doses as manufacturer gets stretched Kampala, Uganda | RONALD MUSOKE | Uganda’s COVID-19 vaccination exercise has added speed over the last two weeks following President Yoweri Museveni’s getting vaccinated publicly on March 27. Dr. Jane Ruth Aceng, the Minister of Health said April 8 that …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) have halted the use of the Johnson and Johnson (J&J) vaccine after recording six cases of people developing blood clots. In an announcement on Tuesday, the health bodies said the patients who …