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Lira, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | COVID-19 vaccination cards are being sold to unvaccinated people at a cost of Sh100,000 in Lira, according to Ivan Kareiga, the Officer in Charge of operations at Lira Central Police Station. While addressing the COVID-19 task force meeting on Thursday, Kareiga informed the team …

  Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPDNENT | All is set for the new Uganda Premier League season. The league is slated to kick off today. Ahead of the new League, Decolus Kiiza, the FUFA Deputy CEO in charge of Football says that players have either received their first COVID-19 jab …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The National Medical Stores (NMS) has announced that unvaccinated staff and visitors will no longer be allowed to access its offices. The directive takes immediate effect for staff, and start on October 18 for all other visitors. This implies that all NMS staff, who …

  Abuja, Nigeria | Xinhua | Nigerian government has said it will compel federal civil servants to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19 before gaining access to their offices from Dec. 1. The move was to encourage the vaccination rate across the country, said Boss Mustapha, the secretary to the government …

Bududa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A total of 229 teachers in Bududa district have shunned vaccination, seven months since vaccination of teachers was rolled out in Bududa district. So far, 1,371 teachers and non-teaching staff in Bududa district have been vaccinated against Covid-19. The district received 9,313 doses of AstraZeneca …

Soroti, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health authorities in Soroti have taken the coronavirus vaccination campaign to socialization areas to help reach out to several people in the villages. The development follows the low uptake of COVID-19 vaccination in the region amidst the surging number of infections. Statistics from Soroti Regional …

Lisbon, Portugal | Xinhua |  Portugal has completed the vaccination of 85 percent of its population against COVID-19, the country’s Director-General of Health Graca Freitas said on Saturday. Freitas told Lusa news agency that Portugal managed to lead global vaccination race by having “given an opportunity to everyone … to …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A section of nurses deployed at the KCCA primary school COVID-19 vaccination center in Kamwokya have shunned the exercise protesting non-payment of their allowances. The nurses are entitled to a daily allowance of Shillings 5000, which is meant to facilitate their movement. However, the nurses have …

Geneva, Switzerland | Xinhua | The World Health Organization (WHO) announced on Thursday an initiative to vaccinate 40 percent of the population of every country against COVID-19 by the end of 2021 and 70 percent by mid-2022, by prioritizing vaccine delivery to low-income countries, particularly those in Africa. “Today, WHO is …

Ambassador Brown visits vaccination site administering US donated Pfizer vaccine after launching $1.6 million grant to KCCA Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT |  United States Ambassador to Uganda Natalie E. Brown has today launched a $1.6 million (nearly UGX 6 billion) grant, representing the first-year of funding of a five-year partnership …