The East African
Wednesday February 10 2021
Boxes of the AstraZeneca/Oxford Covid-19 vaccine are inside a storage fridge at a temporary Covid-19 vaccination centre in Derby, central England, on February 8, 2021. -PHOTO | PHIL NOBLE | POOL | AFP
Summary
The country will pay $7 per dose of the Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine South Africa is paying $5.25 and the EU $2.16.
Uganda’s price does not include international transportation and handling costs for the vaccine, which have been put at $3 per dose.
With this particular vaccine requiring two doses between 28 days, the total will be $17 per person for a full regimen.
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Uganda will buy 18 million doses of the Oxford vaccine at a higher price than South Africa, and more than triple what the European Union is paying for the same, the government announced this week.
The request was made by Dan Odongo, Executive Secretary UNEB while appearing before Parliament’s Budget Committee to defend the supplementary budget request.
Odongo defended the supplementary funding arguing that before the pandemic, the Board required spacing of 1.2 meters but this distance has to be adjusted to 2m meters to conform with the SOPs, a development that would require more invigilators to cover the additional rooms to be used.
For Primary Leaving Examinations that will be conducted in 2 days, UNEB plans to hire additional 19,910 invigilators with each fetching Shs48,500 bringing the total to Shs1.931 billion.
In Uganda Certificate Examinations, UNEB plans to hire additional 8,703 and each would be paid Shs48,500 bringing total to Shs5.909 billion while UACE will need 4,747 invigilators to oversee average 10days of examinations at a cost of Shs2.302 billion.
The Ministry of Finance is required to raise Shs 165 billion for the procurement of new vehicles for the 527 members of the 11th Parliament before the end of this month.
However, it’s under the discretion of MPs to buy cars or use the money for other expenses.
Under the Budget Frame work paper presented by the ministry of finance before the Parliament s Budget Committee, the expenditure on MPs’ cars will be funded through tax policy and administrative measures. Vehicles of MPs are one of the items that are not funded. The whole basis of the budget of next financial year is actually the third National Development Plan (NDPIII). The NDP III has set out priorities and things which we believe are very critical for reviving the economy to address the impact of Covid-19. A totality of all those things has been reviewed and I believe that recommendations will be given. Financing of MPs will also be seen in that context, Mr Kenneth Mugambe, the director budget at Ministry of Fin
Daily Monitor
Wednesday January 27 2021
This file photo taken recently shows some of the vehicles belonging to MPs at Parliament. Legislators are given these facilities to do constituency work. PHOTO/ ALEX ESAGALA.
Summary
According to projections, the Parliamentary budget is expected to rise from Shs667 billion in this financial year to Shs770 billion in the 2021/2022 financial year.
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th Parliament before the end of this month.
However, it’s under the discretion of MPs to buy cars or use the money for other expenses.
Under the Budget Frame work paper presented by the ministry of finance before the Parliament s Budget Committee, the expenditure on MPs’ cars will be funded through tax policy and administrative measures.