Epidemics Tracker

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Ministry of Education is worried as over 99% of all the teachers registered across the country to receive the Covid-19 vaccine are still hesitant to receive the AstraZeneca jabs giving excuses like long distances to the vaccination centres. As different frontline workers who were identified …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda might go through the second wave of COVID-19 without functional Intensive Care Units. ICUs are used to handle severe COVID-19 cases with breathing difficulties due to organ failure, one of the side effects of the disease. To better handle COVID-19 cases, the health ministry announced …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT  |  The ministry of health has been forced to continuously revise the COVID-19 vaccination priority groups due to the low uptake of the vaccine. According to health ministry officials, they have been forced to change the original plan of vaccination to increase uptake of the vaccine. Originally, …

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Researches for COVID-19 vaccines are very risky, Uganda Virus Research Institute (UVRI) Executive Director Prof. Pontiano Kaleebu has warned saying while funders inject in lots of cash, they can’t guarantee that they will have a product at the end of the study. This follows a meeting …

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 World Health Organisation has urged the government of Uganda to put in place measures to address adverse side effects of COVID-19 vaccines. The call follows reports that the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine has been found to cause rare blood clots similar to the …

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 …

Washington, USA |  XINHUA |  U.S. federal health agencies on Tuesday called for a pause in the use of Johnson & Johnson’s COVID-19 vaccine after rare blood clotting cases emerged in six recipients. In a joint statement Tuesday, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. …