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Busia, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Health workers have started a five days door to door cholera vaccination exercise in the 24 villages of Busia municipality. Busia municipality received a total of 71,150 doses of oral cholera vaccines that are administered to people aged one year and above. The vaccination exercise …

  Kitgum, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Hundreds of teachers and support staff from learning institutions are flocking selected vaccination sites in Kitgum district as mandatory COVID-19 vaccination commences. The vaccination is in line with the health ministry’s directives to pave way for a full reopening of schools, and is being …

Pallisa, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Pallisa Deputy RDC Magidu Dhikusooka, who doubles as the chairperson district Covid-19 taskforce has warned that teachers who dodge the ongoing vaccination against Covid-19 will be terminated from service. The RDC issued the warning today while addressing headteachers of both government and private primary …

Kasese, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Mass vaccination for cholera is set to be rolled out in Kasese district this weekend. The exercise will be done by a joint team comprising the Ministry of Health and the District Health Team with support from the World Health Organization-WHO. The exercise will target …

Hoima, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | 703 teachers in Hoima district and Hoima city have been vaccinated against Covid-19 on the first day of the mass vaccination. The exercise was launched on Wednesday in both Hoima district and Hoima city. On the first day of the vaccination, 340 teachers were vaccinated …

Chicago, U.S. | Xinhua | COVID-19 vaccination elicited antibody responses in nearly nine out of 10 people with weakened immune systems, although their responses were only about one-third as strong as those mounted by healthy people, according to a study of researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | More than two million children in Uganda have never been vaccinated against polio according to the Uganda National Expanded Programme on Immunization. While Uganda was declared polio free in August 2020, the presence of unvaccinated children makes them vulnerable to vaccine derived polio, Ministry of …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | About 54,750 Ugandans have been vaccinated against yellow fever in the twelve day exercise organized by the National Medical Stores-NMS. NMS commenced its annual mass vaccination drive at Mayor’s garden, Entebbe municipality on August 19. The exercise ended yesterday, August 30. During the exercise, our …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Women who seek vaccination against Covid-19 could experience a longer than usual period, vaccinologist Ombeva Malande has warned urging health workers to clearly inform their female clients when they turn up for the jab so they can know what to expect. Dr Malande, who is …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | A number of individuals are fluking the ongoing COVID-19 vaccination at centres that were preserved for teachers and their support staff. The vaccination exercise for teachers in Kampala schools started on August 25, as one of the measures to prepare for the reopening of …