Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni has called for Covid-19 vaccination efforts to be ramped up while threatening officials with dismissal should vaccines be left to expire.
Surveillance and testing have been increased at all airports and land points of entry to prevent a third wave and the emergence of new variants of Covid-19 in Uganda.200 person limit for places of worship.Bars and entertainment venues remain closed and will reopen once 4.8 million people have been vaccinated.
280 000 more schooling staff, 330 000 students of 18 years or above and all priority groups are to be vaccinated before schools reopen. Meanwhile, hundreds of motorcycles used by boda boda drivers that were impounded due to curfew violations are to be returned to their drivers, local news platform Nile Post reported on Thursday.
“I direct you to release these motorcycles. I direct you to release them. Let us have an amnesty for these boda boda people,” Museveni said on Wednesday evening after alluding to the virtue of forgiveness as a religious person. As of Wednesday, more than 1.6 million cumulative cases of Covid-19 have been recorded, including 3,135 deaths. More than 1.7 million doses of the Covid-19 vaccine have been administered, the East African country’s Ministry of Health reported.
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