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All teachers ordered to take Covid-19 jabs Tuesday April 27 2021 A teachers conducts a class session. Teaching usually involves 'direct contact' thus highly exposing parties involved to potential spreaders of the Covid-19 virus. PHOTO/FILE Summary The country is struggling with low uptake of the vaccines with hesitancy among some frontline workers who include teachers. Advertisement Government has issued a directive, asking all teachers to go for the Covid-19 vaccination as a requirement to stop the pandemic spread in schools, amid resistance from the teachers.   Of the 260,717 teachers in t...

Elegu Township in dry season –Photo by Jesse Johnson James Susan Afoyocan’s fear of losing her restaurant business started when she saw the first drops of rain. It was at the onset of the rainy season last month, as the farming communities eagerly began preparing their gardens that she knew she had to do something about these warning signs. Last year, around the same time, heavy rains destroyed Afoyocan’s local eatery and washed away her fruit stall in the process. And now the 33-year-old was determined to protect her source of livelihood as she set about renovating and remodeling her r...

Daily Monitor Thursday April 22 2021 A Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldier receives a Covid-19 jab at the Senior Officers’ Diagnositic Centre in Mbuya, Kampala, on April 18. One of the reasons why a number of Ugandans have shunned vaccination is fear and uncertainty which are fueled by lack of accurate and adequate information. PHOTO | DAVID LUBOWA Summary The issue: Vaccination Our view: Now that we have the vaccine, what’s stopping us from using the same level of vigilance and dedication in sensitising the masses about the vaccine? Advertisement Uganda received 964,000 doses...

Covid-19 vaccines will expire in July, says Health ministry Wednesday April 21 2021 A Uganda People’s Defence Forces (UPDF) soldier receives a Covid-19 jab at the Senior Officers’ Diagnositic Centre in Mbuya, Kampala, on April 18. More than 280,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines could expire before being used. photo/DAVID LUBOWA. Summary Amuru District is one of the districts which Dr Alfred Driwale, the Head of immunisation programme at the Health ministry, had earlier singled out over low vaccine uptake. Advertisement More than 280,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines could expire before being us...

April 21, 2021 A section of Soroti hospital Medics at Soroti Regional Referral hospital have said that the surviving Amuru siamese twin has recovered and is completely out of danger. Last month, the doctors successfully separated a dead conjoined twin from her living sibling. The twins were delivered by caesarean section at Amuria health centre IV in Amuria district in northern Uganda to Joyce Alinga, a 21-year-old who conceived during the long COVID-19 lockdown. But moments after the caesarean birth, one of the twins was found dead while the other was still alive, prompting medics in Amur...