Wakiso district receives 3000 additional doses of Covid-19 vaccine.

By Charles Katabalwa

5^th July 2021

Wakiso District has received an additional 3,000 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine.

The District Health Officer, Matthias Lugolobi, says the National Medical Stores-NMS delivered the additional doses on Friday last week.

This brings to 8,370, the number of doses received by the district to vaccines health workers and people due for their second jab. These are part of the 175,200 doses Uganda received two weeks ago from the French government.

NMS has since delivered over 117,000 vaccine doses to 135 districts across the country. In the last three months, over 51,000 people took COVID-19 jabs in Wakiso district. So far, 5000 people have taken their full dose at 52 vaccinations in Wakiso district including Entebbe Hospital.

Lugolobi however, says that “the biggest challenge right now is that people who got their first dose from centers in Kampala are locked down in Wakiso and yet they have got few doses.

Between mid-March and early June, 5,958 people took COVID-19 jabs at Entebbe hospital. Of these, 1,726 received their second jab by last week.

Muhammed Mubiru, the Principal Administrator Entebbe Hospital, says that the hospital received 600 doses of the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine last Monday but they ran out of the vaccines in midweek yet dozens of people had lined up outside the vaccination.