Kampala: The Ministry of Health has today received 864,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine, shipped via the COVAX facility—the world’s facility for universal access to COVID-19 vaccines. The arrival marks a historic step towards the goal to ensure equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines globally, in an unprecedented effort to provide at least 2 billion doses […]

On Friday 5 March Uganda will receive an initial batch of 864,000 Astra Zeneca Covid-19 vaccines through the COVAX equitable access facility. These 18 million vaccines for Uganda are among the first of more than a billion doses going to developing countries this year through COVAX. COVAX is explicitly designed to work for high and middle […]