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Why govt has delayed to roll out moderna

Noelyn Nassuuna by Noelyn Nassuuna
September 23, 2021
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Why govt has delayed to roll out moderna

A nurse administrators a Covid-19 jab during the launch of the mass vaccination at Mulago Women’s Specialised Hospital on March 10, 2021. PHOTO/ FILE

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Moderna Covid-19 vaccines are still in the government stores 16 days after the government received the consignment.
Dr Alfred Driwale, the country’s head of immunisation programme told Daily Monitor  yesterday that they cannot release Moderna before districts have exhausted other types of vaccines they were given.

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“Where we want to take Moderna, there are still AstraZeneca in those districts. So we don’t want to add when they have not exhausted their doses,” he said, adding:  “This is done to ensure we run a very efficient vaccination agenda.” The government received 647,080 doses of Moderna on September 7.
The vaccines, in addition to more than 1.6 million doses of Pfizer received on Monday, were donated by the United States of America government.

Low uptake
The country is grappling with low uptake of vaccines in some districts with up to 375,155 doses out of 2,152,840 doses of vaccines distributed earlier to districts about to get expired. The expiry date is September 30, according to the ministry.
The government has so far vaccinated 1,777,685 people which is about 8 per cent of the target population of 21.9 million that the country plans to vaccinate to safely reopen the economy. The majority of those vaccinated have received only one dose.

Dr Henry Mwebesa, the director-general of Health Services, last week asked National Medical Stores that by Saturday, they should start collecting unused vaccines and take them to districts with high demand.

Read more: https://www.monitor.co.ug/uganda/news/national/why-govt-has-delayed-to-roll-out-moderna-3560008

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